The Christmas truce, 1914
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Despite the mass slaughter orchestrated by European governments, rank-and-file soldiers during World War I often attempted to resist the war effort and refuse to fight their fellow workers from different countries.
Everyday resistance to fighting often took the form of an unofficial “live and let live” policy on the front, where troops on each side agreed not to launch offensive action. And “search and ignore” patrols were common.
Later on in the war this resistance exploded into outright mutinies, which eventually ended the conflict.
But an early and spectacular example of this unofficial rebellion was the 1914 Christmas truce.