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EPISODE · Dec 22, 2014 · 49 MIN

The Christmas Truce

from Things Unseen · host Things Unseen

At Christmas 1914, British and German soldiers on the Western front laid down their weapons, exchanged gifts and sang carols together. Some even kicked a football around. In this programme, Nelufar Hedayat hears accounts of these astonishing events, separates fact from fiction and finds out what the Christmas truce means to the descendents of those soldiers and young people today.

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