The Christmas Truce

Update: 2011-12-23

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On Christmas Eve 1914, during World War I, British and German soldiers stopped fighting.

Many of them left their trenches and started to talk and exchange gifts.

But after a few hours of peace they were ordered back to their guns.

Photo: Associated Press

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The Christmas Truce