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December 1914: The war of maneuver
in Europe had already become the
stalemate of the trenches. Millions of
soldiers, French, English, Bavarian,
Swabian, Scots and so many others,
suffered the danger, discomfort, mud
and cold of living in badly constructed
holes in the frozen ground.
The war that was to end in a matter of weeks had
become a war that would drag on for four more
horrible years. And yet, in the midst of the misery, a
moral miracle occurred with virtually no precedent:
the Christmas truce of 1914.
No one knows for certain just how it began,
but many accounts speak of the strains of
Stille
Nacht
(Silent Night) coming from the German
trenches early on Christmas Eve. A group of Scots
A PIECE OF HEAVEN IN HELL
THE MORAL MIRACLE OF THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE
Photos Courtesy and Copyright to Sainsbury’s OFFICIAL Christmas 2014 Ad
BOB WIESNER
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BAYLEY BULLETIN, DEC-FEB 2016