MG 08s Cast Aside as Enemy WWI Soldiers Engage in the Christmas Truce of 1914 ( lemmy.world )
The truce occurred five months after hostilities had begun. Lulls occurred in the fighting as armies ran out of men and munitions and commanders reconsidered their strategies following the stalemate of the Race to the Sea and the indecisive result of the First Battle of Ypres. In the week leading up to 25 December, French,...
