Maybe some sort of truce and peace talks could be imposed on unwilling government.
Let's make the hypothesis of a repetition in '15 of the christmast truce (like the one in '14).
OTL both the armies prevented that with massive gunfighting (when you're shelled, you don't feel singing carrols).
Let's suppose artillerymen refuse to bomb, MPs refuse to arrest them, a few officials ordering "assault!" die of lead poisoning (from the back).
Fraternization between the trench soldiers such as in '14, but now there's some socialist discontent at home too.
Worried reports about socialist propaganda spreading (in both armies).
There's too much people in too little space! Damned trenches: just a socialist agitator could poison the minds of an hundred otherwise trustworty Pomeranian grenaders!
We must do some thing, Mein Kaiser!
But, in order to screen the army and isolate agitators we must reach some sort of prolonged truce with the enemy.
Hell, with it, we'll get our Revanche on the boches later: we cannot risk another Revolution Francaise in the midst of a war
Let's make the hypothesis of a repetition in '15 of the christmast truce (like the one in '14).
OTL both the armies prevented that with massive gunfighting (when you're shelled, you don't feel singing carrols).
Let's suppose artillerymen refuse to bomb, MPs refuse to arrest them, a few officials ordering "assault!" die of lead poisoning (from the back).
Fraternization between the trench soldiers such as in '14, but now there's some socialist discontent at home too.
Worried reports about socialist propaganda spreading (in both armies).
There's too much people in too little space! Damned trenches: just a socialist agitator could poison the minds of an hundred otherwise trustworty Pomeranian grenaders!
We must do some thing, Mein Kaiser!
But, in order to screen the army and isolate agitators we must reach some sort of prolonged truce with the enemy.
Hell, with it, we'll get our Revanche on the boches later: we cannot risk another Revolution Francaise in the midst of a war