What was the Christmas Truce?

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2008

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Amid the bloodshed of World War I, the Pope pled for a truce on Christmas Day. The commanding powers refused the truce, but soldiers across Europe crossed battle lines to spend Christmas the enemy. Check out our HowStuffWorks article to learn more.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from Howstupworks.com.
0:35.8	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:44.9	I'm editor Candice Gibson, join voice, staff writer,
0:47.5	Josh Curie, psychic cat clerk, Merry Christmas in July, Josh.
0:52.5	Well, Merry Christmas to you too, Candice.
0:55.0	That's funny, you say that because number one I've been drinking eggnog all day.
0:59.2	And number two, my question kind of has to do with Christmas.
1:03.1	Actually, it's based more around war, but Christmas fits in there somewhere.
1:07.5	So, you know, we're war one, you know, it changed the face of war forever.
1:12.0	Forever.
1:13.0	So, we saw chemical warfare for the first time.
1:16.7	Machine guns started being used.
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