Julefreden 1914 / The Christmas truce

Under Første Verdenskrigs første jul blev der især på Vestfronten etableret "julefred" mellem de kæmpende skyttegrave, i form af våbenhvile, fraternisering, fællessang og endog forsøg på fodboldkampe.

During the Christmas days of the first World War's first winter, there were widespread incidents mostly on the Western Front of truce, fraternization and even attempts to organize football matches. See our link collection Christmas - Articles, stories and websites in English

Udvalg af artikler fra linksamlingen / Selected articles on the truce 1914:

• Julefreden på Vestfronten. Af Claus Bryld (Jyllands-Posten, 28. december 2014)
• In English:
• Christmas truce (Wikipedia.org)
• Demystifying the Christmas Truce: The various impacts of a short peace on the minds of soldiers. By Thomas Löwer (The Heritage of the Great War) + Bibliography.
• In Memory of the Christmas Truce. By George Beres (History News Network: History of Christmas, December 30, 2005)
• The Christmas Truce of World War I. By David Brown (History News Network: History of Christmas, December 27, 2004)
• The 100th anniversary of the World War I Christmas truce. By Julie Hyland (World Socialist Web Site, 24 December 2014)
• Reabsorbing solidarity (Weekly Worker, Issue 1039, 18 December 2014). "The 1914 Christmas truce has been thoroughly sanitised by the establishment, argues Paul Demarty."
• When soldiers declared peace on earth. By Rory Fanning (SocialistWorker.org, December 18, 2014)
  
• ‘All Together Now’: how should we remember the 1914 Christmas truces? By Nick Megoran (Counterfire, December 17, 2014)
  
• How WWW1 soldier's created a 'live and let live' system. By Barry Healy (Green Left Weekly, Issue 1036, December 6, 2014)
  
• Soldiers revolt at Christmas. By Chris Fuller (Socialist Review, Issue 397, December 2014)
• How true is the 1914 Christmas truce when enemies played football instead of killing each other? By Archie Bland (No Glory - In War 1914-1918,  21 April 2014). "We now know that frontline troops were rotated ... after their impromptu cease fire."
• The soldiers’ truce. By Phil Shannon (Green Left Weekly, Issue 480, 13 February 2002). Review of Stanley Weintraub’s Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce (The Free Press, 2001)
  
• The slogan of civil war illustrated (1915). By V.I. Lenin (Marxists Internet Archive)
• Special features: Lyrics to ’Christmas in the Trenches’(1984). By John McCutcheon. With links to Vintage Victrola Christmas Recordings (download streamed) + short article about the 1914 Christmas truce. 
• About Aaron Shepard’s ’The Christmas Truce’ + background: The Christmas Truce (School Magazine, April 2001) 

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See the articles on Wikipedia.org: Christmas truce - with links. Link til større norsk artikel und auch in deutch.

Se vores links til filmen om julefreden/See our links to film:  Joyeux Noël / En dag uden krig

The Christmas Truce 1914 : German soldiers of the 134th Saxon Regiment photographed with men of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in No Man's Land on the Western Front. (Kilde/Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Christmas_Truce_1914)