12/24 – The Christmas Truce

A "Boche" and "Tommy" share a cigarette at a POW camp during the later years of the war. "Fraternisation" like this was generally discouraged by higher command after the 1914 Christmas Truce. (Reddit) On Christmas Eve of 1914, nearly 100,000 soldiers on both sides laid down their arms in a series of informal ceasefires along…