The WW1 Christmas Truce: 'The war, for that moment, came to a standstill'
The WW1 Christmas Truce: 'The war, for that moment, came to a standstill' During the bleak winter of 1914, amid the mud, blood and chaos of World War One, an extraordinary series of ceasefires spontaneously occurred along the Western Front. In the 1960s the BBC spoke to some of the men who, over that exceptional Christmas period, decided to lay down their arms.ceasefirehumanityworld war iLINK