On Christmas Eve 1914, in the middle of World War 1, the guns on the Western Front suddenly went silent—and German and British soldiers climbed out of their trenches, lit candles, sang “Silent Night,” buried their dead together and played football in No Man’s Land. In this Christmas special of Zero Signal, we dive into the strange, almost unbelievable story of the Christmas Truce of 1914, ask why this moment of spontaneous peace between “enemies” was quickly buried by the war machine, and explore the darker conspiracy of how propaganda depends on you never seeing your enemy as human.

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The Christmas Truce | History – YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGO9Q1vl- ...