While the legendary Christmas truce football match is largely exaggerated, there are smaller instances of fraternisation that occurred on the Western Front in 1914. Here, historian Alex Churchill introduces George Fletcher, the British languages master who embodied the spontaneous nature of the Christmas Truce by trading cigarettes, singing carols and even exchanging business cards with the Germans Listen to the full conversation ad-free at historyextra.com/podcast or search 'historyextra' where

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We are very happy today to upload our first video, a short account of the Christmas truce: an unofficial mutiny of around 100,000 troops on the Western front during World War I. To help us do more videos and other projects please support our Christmas appeal here: https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory Please also subscribe to our new YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/workingclasshistory | Working Class History

Late on Christmas Eve 1914, men of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) heard German troops in the trenches opposite them singing carols and patriotic songs and saw lanterns and small fir trees along their trenches. Messages began to be shouted between the trenches. The following day, British and German soldiers met in no man's land and exchanged gifts, took photographs and some played impromptu games of football. How did the truce start, what happened and what was its legacy? Watch our video o