8th October 1916
THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS UNITED ENEMIES
Tired of fighting, the British and German troops come together to play football, forgetting their differences.
These Christmas of 1914 took place a truce between Germans and British on the border between German and French lands. During this truce both troops held several football matches in no man`s land. Now the truth comes to light thanks to the interview we have been able to make to an old soldier wounded in the trenches that participated in these football matches.
These are the statements:
Q: How were the days in the trenches?
A: The days were very hard, the cold, hunger and diseases made it an agony. The noise of the shots and the grenades instead os the sound os the birds, the heartrending screams of men leaving broken families, was a real torture. Every night we went to sleep giving thanks for having lived another day but afraid it was our last day.
Q: What kind of diseases did you get?
A: The conditions in which we were, made us contract tuberculosis and pneumonias but the most frecuent was the so called trench fever caused by infected wounds.
Q: Did you participated in the Christmas truce?
A: Yes, it was the only day in which we rested from all the noises and worries of the war that we had to suffer, you could see how we had many things in common...after all none of us who were there wanted the war.
Q:Tell me more about the day of the truce.
A: We played a soccer match in no man`s land, it was incredible how we could understand each other despite being opponents. But after finishing the truce everything came back to the violence, pain and suffering.
Q:What is the hardest thing you`ve seen?
A: The hardest thing I`ve seen has been that in an attack my brother and I were going togheter and suddenly a bullet went through his head, I could see how his gesture froze and his whole body fell to the floor leaving his wife`s letters whitout answers.
Q:Which is the hardest things you have done?
A: Kill so many people and have destroyed so many families, left orphan children.
As we can see the conditions in the trenches were horrible and we wait that all the soldiers who survived can live in peace.
I really like the content, they have chosen a good information and they have explained quite well how was that war, in the conditions that they lived and the many dangers that were exposed.
ReplyDeleteJavi
Very good Javi!! Thanks for your analysis!!
DeleteYour work has been an original purpose but I have had to repair the format and you didn´t include links... There is not paper version!!
ReplyDeleteYour mark is 8,25
I think that it's a excellent news which explain very clear and brief the life in the trenches during the First World War, congratulations for your work, keep it that way.
ReplyDeleteCarlos Martínez Pérez
Good comment Carlos.
DeleteI found your article about the Christmas truce very interesting and original. you have explained very well the topic. Good job!
ReplyDeleteBrenda
You should do a bigger effort...
Deletethese article i like so much because i don´t know nothing and know i know some more.
ReplyDeletesaray antunez martinez
So many misspelling in such a sort sentence...
DeleteIt seems to me a precious article, where a battlefield becomes a playground, the weapons are exchanged for a ball, all against all, regardless of which side they belong to, because those who played there were young guys who probably did not want the war, but they had to fight by following orders from their leaders.
ReplyDeleteInés Bajo
Good opinion Inés...
DeleteI think that this article is in general very good. Your have choose avery emotional theme and you have work very god with it and you have also expalined the life in the trenches in a original and intersting format,the interview. The videos are very good too.
ReplyDeleteNuria González
Good comment but...be careful with past perfect... (have chosen)
DeleteThe topic is very interisting and important, It represents that men don't hate each other. It's a new form if news for us and O really believed that I was talking to a soldier who fought in the trenches.
ReplyDeleteAlberto que me olvidé de firmar⬆
DeleteThank you Alberto
DeleteVery good work boys, it looks to me a very interesting and original news. I never listened it before and it becomes to me strange that in the middle of a war they were putting to play to the football.
ReplyDeleteI have liked this news very much, there is incredible the way in which you report as a few innocent men they do what really they want.
ReplyDeletePili Martínez Cadenas
In my opinion this article was so beautiful because we can see that the war mede that the people hate other people but when it´s time like Chrismas the people only want to relax and hade a happy party.
ReplyDeleteAna Rubio Luengo