“It is Holy Night and there will be no shooting.” The soldiers agreed.
The story of the Christmas truce of 1914 is well known to us: Allies and Germans laid down their arms and exchanged greetings and gifts, played football matches, and even took photos together. But there is another, lesser-known Christmas truce that took place thirty years later, on Christmas Eve 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, the last German offensive in the West. In a hunter’s hut in the Hürtgenwald, on the German side of the Belgian border, four German and three American soldiers laid down their weapons and shared Christmas dinner.
