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Rethinking the Holidays

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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The Germans and the Germans - What a Wonderful Story!

The british and the german generals were in chateaus or hotels far behind the lines. They didn't know quite what was going on, but they kept getting weird reports of what was happening. The germans even rolled over barrels of beer across no man's land to the british who had no beer. It was a fantastic situation, and it was contagious. And so at christmas day dawn, they buried the dead with due ceremony, very moving, individual ceremonies. Both sides did this, and they helped each other.

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