"Most wars are senseless exercises in mass murder and needless destruction. World War I, however, is remarkable not only for being more avoidable and less justifiable than most wars, but also for its role in opening the gates of hell. Mass starvation and economic ruin inflicted on Germany during the war and its aftermath cultivated the National Socialist (Nazi) movement. Nearly identical ruin wrought in Russia thrust Lenin and the Bolsheviks to power. Benito Mussolini, a socialist agitator once regarded as Lenin’s heir, rose to power in Italy. Radical variants of intolerant totalitarian nationalism ulcerated Europe. The seeds of future wars and terrorism were deeply sewn in the Middle East."
WWI was orchestrated by "high-born conspirators against the peace of the world" as British author Arthur Conan Doyle named them after the war (a conflict that claimed his son’s life). It 'must arouse bitter thought concerning' them.
However, "For a tragically short time, the Spirit of the Prince of Peace drowned out the murderous demands of the State" during the Christmas truce of 1914. Read fasinating take on the 1914 Christmas truce Authored by Will Grigg via The Libertarian Institute, linked here through
Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge.
Highlights;
- One week before Christmas Germans slipping a “splendid” chocolate cake across the lines to their British counterparts with an invitation to a concert "provided you will give us your word of honor as guests that you agree to cease hostilities between 7:30 and 8:30…"
- [A]long the Front, arrangements were worked out to retrieve fallen soldiers and give them proper treatment or burial, including the entire morning of Dec 19 where British and Germans helped each other bury their dead and smoked each others cigarettes
- Christmas 1914, German and English soldiers played soccer on the frozen turf of No Man’s Land.
British Field Artillery Lieutenant John Wedderburn-Maxwell described the event as “probably the most extraordinary event of the whole war – a soldier’s truce without any higher sanction by officers and generals….”
It what could only be described as the spirit of the 20th Century, “Such a thing should not happen in wartime,” groused Corporal Adolf Hitler.
After the truce these European Catholics and Protestants went back to killing each other. As one Punjabi soldier wrote “This is not war. It is the ending of the world.”
Highlights;
- One week before Christmas Germans slipping a “splendid” chocolate cake across the lines to their British counterparts with an invitation to a concert "provided you will give us your word of honor as guests that you agree to cease hostilities between 7:30 and 8:30…"
- [A]long the Front, arrangements were worked out to retrieve fallen soldiers and give them proper treatment or burial, including the entire morning of Dec 19 where British and Germans helped each other bury their dead and smoked each others cigarettes
- Christmas 1914, German and English soldiers played soccer on the frozen turf of No Man’s Land.
British Field Artillery Lieutenant John Wedderburn-Maxwell described the event as “probably the most extraordinary event of the whole war – a soldier’s truce without any higher sanction by officers and generals….”
It what could only be described as the spirit of the 20th Century, “Such a thing should not happen in wartime,” groused Corporal Adolf Hitler.
After the truce these European Catholics and Protestants went back to killing each other. As one Punjabi soldier wrote “This is not war. It is the ending of the world.”
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