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5/23/2014 All Is Calm recalls the night in 1914 when soldiers didn't fight at Christmas I Theater I Indy Week <br /> Arts »Theater December 12, 2012 <br /> All Is Calm recalls the night in 1914 when <br /> soldiers didn 't fight at Christmas <br /> by Byron Woods <br /> Y. <br /> Photo by Adam Graetz <br /> "All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1 91 4" <br /> First off, report that it happened: Less than five months into the First World <br /> War, an estimated 100,000 German and Allied soldiers stationed in the <br /> trenches along several hundred miles of its Western Front unexpectedly <br /> ceased hostilities on the eve and the day of Christmas 1914. <br /> Unplanned and certainly unauthorized, those troops met with one another, <br /> informally and unarmed, through the night and the day in the no-man's <br /> land between the two front lines. We know they exchanged small presents <br /> and souvenirs; shared food, liquor and tobacco; played pick-up games of <br /> soccer; and cooperated in the removal and burial of the dead. In some <br /> places, it's reported that the impromptu truce lasted up to two weeks, as <br /> entire companies subverted orders to resume combat: directing munitions <br /> fire into the air, away from their former targets, or on a predetermined, <br /> and therefore harmless, schedule. <br /> http://wm.i ndyAeekcorr/i ndyp eek/al I-is-calrrr recalls-the-ni g ht-i n-1914-when-sol diers-didnt-fi g ht-at-christrnas/Content?oid=3215988&n)ode=print 1/3 <br />