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British and German soldiers meeting during the Christmas Truce, WW1, 1914

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British and German soldiers meeting during the Christmas Truce, WW1, 1914

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HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

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I like this story too. It reminds me of Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Man He Killed” (apologies for screenshot, the formatting was too awkward to get right)(Text available here
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  Thanks for sharing. That was very fitting!

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