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“An Historic Group: British and German Soldiers Photographed Together,”
Daily Mirror (London, England), January 8, 1915.
The fighting in Europe had been growing for almost five months when Pope Benedict tried to arrange a truce between nations in early December 1914 for Christmas. But his efforts failed when Russia declined the truce. The notorious trenches of World War I were filled with weary, cold soldiers. But along the British and German lines, a sudden rise of the Christmas Spirit among the soldiers created a phenomenon that wasn’t seen for the rest of the war the soldiers decided not to fight on Christmas. Stories of this unofficial Christmas Truce were published in newspapers around the world. ....

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