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Christmas Truce in WWI, Shooting a Football instead of Bullets

In the winter of 1914, after six months of World War I, songs and a football were exchanged instead of bullets in the two trenches between German and English soldiers. It was Christmas, and Germans started to celebrate with English soldiers in the middle of the battle, something that later was called Christmas Truce.

The Berlin Divisions Archive.

The Berlin Divisions Archive.

Impressions from Berlin photographers then & now. Exploring divergences and interrelationships of spatial and cultural evolutions of Berlin. Once a city of districts separated, some entanglements have lived on far past the Wall that was torn down in 1989.