Christmas truces during WWI 'were not one-offs' - Dec 17, 2010 - 4:33 pm

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Christmas truces between opposing soldiers continued throughout WWI rather than being a one-off a historian has claimed. A seasonal ceasefire exchange of gifts and carol singing famously took place on the battlefields in 1914. Dr Thomas Weber of the University of Aberdeen says cease-fires continued to take place in 1915 and 1916. However the academic believes this was played down when it came to official war records.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-11999655

Mehar Gill