The Christmas Truce of 1914
Wednesday, December 3
7:30 pm
Doors open at 6:45 pm
Free parking and admission
Tim Mulligan, retired from National Archives and currently teaching at the University of Maryland, will speak on the Christmas Truce of 1914. The truce was not one ordered from above, rather the French, German and Scottish troops in the trenches began singing carols, which lead to a meeting in "no man's land" (the area between trenches) and exchanging of gifts. We will show parts of the film Joyeux Noel 2005 about the famous incident. Mulligan often uses this film in his course “History through Hollywood.”
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