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Hey, history lovers.

I'm Mike Rosenwald with Retropod,

a show about the past, rediscovered.

In 1914, on a frosty starlit night on the Western Front during World War I,

a battlefield miracle took place.

There, in the quiet darkness of no man's land, the melodies of Christmas and peace

rose seemingly from nowhere. First, O Holy Night, then God save the king.

Some British soldiers peered over their trenches for what must have been the first time

in weeks. They saw Christmas trees lit with candles on the parapets of the enemy's trenches.

Then a shout. You know shoot, we know shoot.

And so for a brief moment in a tragic war,

the soldiers sent to fight each other,

decided themselves that they would become friends.

It's since been remembered as the Christmas truce. World War I started that summer,

and soldiers and civilians throughout Europe believed the war would be over by Christmas. Instead,

that December 25th of 1914 would be the first of four Christmases observed

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