The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

On Christmas Eve 1914, something remarkable happened on the Western Front during the First World War. Soldiers in the trenches

on both sides of no man's land cease fighting. Not only did they stop fighting, but they came

out of their trenches to meet each other to celebrate Christmas. It's become one of the

most mythologized events of the war and one of the oddest events in military history.

Learn more about the Christmas truce of 1914 and what really happened on this episode of

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On Christmas Day 1914, no one had thought that the war would still be going on.

When the war began in the summer, both sides thought that it would be over by autumn.

In fact, the phrase often used by the troops was that they would be home by Christmas.

Instead, what happened is that the war devolved into a stalemate.

The main German advance was stopped early on at the Battle of the Marne.

Both sides dug in, and the Battle of the Marne. Both sides dug in and the result was the trench

warfare that the conflict became known for.

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