they will step up to the Christmas tree, and then it will roar provocatively and comfortably: Fro-oie-e, frooije dich, Christendom... They have decorated the fir tree pompously with glittering ...
It was, after all, Christmas Eve, a seemingly inappropriate time for the Christians of Europe to kill each other. Earlier in December, Pope Benedict XV urged a holiday truce. But the pope’s ...
Massive amounts of life had already been extinguished in the war’s opening months, but there was one event that halted the brutality and bloodshed: the famous World War I Christmas Truce of 1914.