The Christmas truce (German: Weihnachtsfrieden; French: Trêve de Noël; Dutch: Kerstbestand) was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of the First World War around Christmas 1914. The truce occurred five months after hostilities had begun.

聖誕節休戰 （英語： Christmas Truce，法語： Trêve de Noël，德語： Weihnachtsfrieden）泛指發生於 第一次世界大战 期间的 平安夜 或 聖誕節 中， 德國 與 英國 及 法國 前線軍隊之間一些短暫且非官方的 休戰，而狭义的聖誕節休戰是指從1914年聖誕節延伸到1915年年初的那段時間，德英軍隊於各自駐紮的 西線 所發生的休戰行為。 此外在1915年德法軍隊之間也有一場聖誕節休戰，而類似的情節也在1916年 復活節 的 東線戰場 發生過。 第一次世界大戰 是指從1914年7月28日 …

2025年2月1日 · Christmas Truce, (December 24–25, 1914), impromptu cease-fire that occurred along the Western Front during World War I. The pause in fighting was not universally observed, nor had it been sanctioned by commanders on either side, but, along some two-thirds of the Anglo-German front, the guns fell silent.

The Christmas Truce has become one of the most famous and mythologised events of the First World War. But what was the real story behind the truce? Why did it happen and did British and German soldiers really play football in no-man's land?

2018年10月29日 · On Christmas Eve 1914, in the dank, muddy trenches on the Western Front of the first world war, a remarkable thing happened. It came to be called the Christmas Truce. And it remains one of...

2024年12月11日 · The Christmas Truce of 1914 occurred on the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18). On Christmas Eve soldiers in the trenches spontaneously agreed to a ceasefire. Beginning with the singing of Christmas carols, the unofficial truce developed into soldiers meeting in no man's land, exchanging gifts, and even playing football together.

2014年12月24日 · A huge range of differing oral accounts, diary entries and letters home from those who took part make it virtually impossible to speak of a “typical” Christmas truce as it took place across ...

2011年12月23日 · The Story of the WWI Christmas Truce It has become a great legend of World War I. But what really happened when British and German troops emerged from their trenches that Christmas Day?

2024年9月18日 · The Christmas Truce of 1914 was a series of unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front during World War I, where soldiers from opposing sides, particularly the French, British, and German armies, temporarily ceased hostilities to celebrate Christmas.

2024年12月10日 · The photographs, letters and interviews in IWM’s collection tell the real story of the Christmas Truce. In this video, Head of Documents and Sound Anthony Richards explains how the truce came about, its impact on the course of the First World War and why it never happened again after 1914.