This episode was originally recorded & released in Dec. 2014, the first Christmas after I started doing the Dangerous History Podcast. Here it is, reissued with a new intro, 10 years later.

One-hundred-and-one Christmases ago, in the cold, damp, muddy ditches of the Western Front, the rank-and-file of the Allied and German armies spontaneously set aside their hatreds to take a break from mass-murdering each other, much to the dismay of their so-called ‘leaders.’

Join CJ as he discusses:

• The context of the Christmas Truce
• How it happened
• The aftermath, legacy, and lessons to be learned from it

Links

• You can sign up to take CJ’s Dangerous History Live-Ceum Course on The Decline & Fall of the Soviet Empire at Indiegogo here, or at Patreon here.
• Support the Dangerous History Podcast via Patreon
• Other ways to support the show
• Get CJ’s Dangerous American History Bibliography FREE
• John McCutcheon’s “Christmas in the Trenches”
• The King’s Singers perform “Stille Nacht”
• A 1981 BBC Documentary about the Christmas Truce made in 1981 that features firsthand accounts from Great War veterans who were still alive at that time

Like this episode?

You can throw CJ a $ tip via Paypal here:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=D6VUYSYQ4EU6L

Throw CJ a $ tip via Venmo here:

https://www.venmo.com/u/dangeroushistory

Or throw CJ a BTC tip here:

bc1qfrz9erz7dqazh9rhz3j7nv696nl52ux8unw79z