Location of the Christmas Truce of 1914 | History Traveler Episode 383

Thank you for showing us where this happened. It is an unbelievable story.

The Command found out about sporadic Truce along the Line and were concerned with mass Desertion and not treating the Enemy as just another Person. The Currency of War to this day is young lives.

It was Christmas morning.. the 25th JD.

Great vid as always. I haven't watched in awhile because the algorithm keeps suppressing you. So, i have to purposely search for you. I've been subbed since you had about 30k. It's great to see how much the channel has grown. But, more importantly, you and your style hasn't really changed, which is the reason i subbed in the first place. Keep it up.

a day of all days , i come home from night work on the 6th june 2024 and suffered a heart attack , and my name is dean , so D DAY has a new meaning for me from the 6th june 1944 ..rip to all the lost souls ,

The band Sabaton did an amazing song about this, and the music video might as well be part of a movie. It's called "Christmas Truce".

Please keep making these videos.

Sabaton covered this extremely well in their song and music video Christmas truce as well

I believe the Christmas truce is the basis for the Royal Guardmen’s song Snoopy’s Christmas. One of my favorite Christmas songs.

But I have heard that there never was a full on match. Just kicking about a ball of some sort

Too bad this spirit cannot live on today will all the division we have in the world.

Thanks for another great video.

Glad to see you back making videos! Always enjoy watching your videos!

Could those soldiers been injured before the truce, and then passed away on the 24th?

I love this story. I have re-told it many times at church Christmas events to show that Christmas can soften hearts. I believe I saw a video of a reenactment of it once.

Despite the Geneva Convention and UN, it really seems like "gentlemanly warefare" rapidly declined after WW1, and was certainly gone by the end of WW2.

Neatly done. Makes you think what fools we can be.

I wish you would have shown the grave markers on or after Xmas. Kinda important. Can you go back and film it? Great video 👍

I don't know if you been to North Carolina there is a museum for the 82 airborne it's in Fayetteville North Carolina

Outstanding.

Wasn’t the Christmas Eve truce.

Outstanding job! Thank you

Very nice. The 2014 Sainsburys UK Christmas ad, does a decent job on this.

The Christmas truce is one of the most amazing stories of war

My great grandad was part of this Christmas truce.

What do you know, my comment seems to have been removed

I would actually really like to see you do some of these videos with al murray

Great video. God bless them all. We just don't learn from the past.

Oh WOW! Thanks for bringing us here! Joyeux Noel is a good movie to watch about this event and is one of my fave history films. I'm surprised there's no Christmas trees on the German trench line. One fact I remember so well.

had no idea that this even happened

I would love to have been with these guys on this trip. That would be very interesting

It's so amazing that the trench warfare of over 100 years past continues to mark the landscape of the French and Belgian countryside to this day. It's a shame the humanity of the soldiers couldn't have ended the war of those in charge.

Great video as always! I always learn something from them. I love your content so please keep it coming. 👍🏻

I’ve just got back home from a trip to see and pay our respects to the fallen soldiers of the commonwealth and the Belgian, French,Dutch and the German graves in and around Ypres Belgium 🇧🇪 and then we went onto where the battle of Waterloo had taken place in 1815. I would definitely recommend anyone to visit and pay your respects to the fallen.

Hello again from Ireland, You made another great episode, The Christmas truce of 1914 is one of the most interesting of all war time stories. But I have heard of a Christmas truce story from the American Civil war involving Confederate Officer John Singleton Mosby The Gray Ghost. When you are back in the USA could you find out anything about that Christmas truce story.

Thanks JD 🤝

Canada took part in one and also abruptly ended another 😆

The Geneva Convention would be much shortly if they added "Don't leave the Canadians unsupervised" 😆

I dont know if youve seen it but Sainsbury in the UK did a Christmas advert based on this in 2014.
Really worth a watch ❤ ⚽️

JD, you are really doing a fine job of telling the story of how awful the Great War was and how people managed to cope in it all. Great of you to take the time and go outside your great wheelhouse of American history as well.

Football,Fußball,Fútbol,Futebol is called worldwide not only in Europe except U.S. same thing with geographical names: La Mancha Channel ( English Channel) Strait of Magellan ( Pirate Drake Passage) etc.Great Video thanks 👍🏻

Listen to sabaton the Christmas truce it's haunting beautiful

Just wow ! You always give me goosebumps with your videos and words. Thanks

Thanks for highlighting this moment in history.

I find it hard to believe that 5 months into the war the french would have a truce with the hated Boches.

Both the Brits and Germans were on foreign land. Easy for them to have fun with one another. Very different from a French or Belgian perspective.

There's an exact replica of the soldiers shaking hands in Liverpool and I've seen both of them and they are stunning.

The great war ? Who dreamed that up ?