It was during World War I the day when soldiers stopped fighting each other, to celebrate Christmas together

And when we're at this party, we sometimes see signs of unity between people.

In these days even political factions can say that “take pause” in their clashes with this beautiful holiday.

But when we talk at the “acre” between fractions, we can't help but mention perhaps the most dramatic example of the Christmas atmosphere, which took place over a century ago, during the first year of World War I, Telegrafi follows.

It's about a moment when German and British soldiers got involved in fighting each other in the dialogue wars, that terrible version of war, where troops fought in endless battles over small pieces of land.

That world, military artillery preceded the infantry of soldiers who left their own protective quays and attacked the enemy in front of the thorn wire and machine guns leaving bodies piled up in anyone's “soil.

It was the scene on Christmas Eve in 1914 when about 100,000 British and German troops were involved in an informal “incorruption of hostility”.

What happened that night?

It was the event that became known as the “Christmas truce” an instant truce.

That night also became symbolic of “Peace on Earth and Good Will on People”, which is often lacking even in our daily lives.

The crazy “ground” was the time when soldiers stopped fighting each other in World War I to celebrate Christmas together.

It all started when British deployed forces recognized Christmas call “Silent Night, holy night” coming from the German side.

Our guys said: Let's get together. So we joined the song”, he confessed Francis Sumpter to History Channel.

Disturbed by the pleasant but strange moment, British troops did not know how to react to what was happening by the German side.

So they began to put their heads on their holes and soon got ready to retreat in case the Germans started shooting.

And then we saw a German standing, shaking arms and we didn't shoot”, said soldier Leslie Wellington, who witnessed this moment.

The Germans approached the British, calling “Grying Christmas” in English.

At first, British troops thought it was a fraud, but when they saw that the Germans were unarmed, they started coming out of the quay.

Slowly and carefully, both sides approached each other and began to shake each other's hands.

They exchanged gifts and sang songs together, even playing soccer, and it follows the telegram. For a moment, between “The Great War”, there was peace on earth.

On Christmas of 1914, each soldier knew that the enemy was sharing the same misery”, Dominiek Dendooven of Flanders Field Museum said in Ypres, Belgium, for History Channel.

The bodies on both sides knew that staying with the enemy in this way is treason and that there was grounds for judicial war and could even be condemned to death. Only this fear would motivate both sides to resume fighting.

Both sides would withdraw to their accounts that night, wondering if they would continue to oppose the war the next morning.

Archibald Stanley recalls how his officer resumed fighting: “You still have a truce?

He took his rifle, shot one of those dead Germans.

According to an article on this History Channel truce:

The so - called Christmas truce of 1914 came just five months after the outbreak of war in Europe and was one of the last examples of the outdated notion of enemies in war. Never again was future ceasefire efforts extinguished by officers' threats of disciplinary action, but it served as inculcating evidence, however brief, that, under the brutal clash of weapons, humanity ruled.