What if: The Christmas truce of 1914 sticks

What if, in 1914 during the Christmas lull and the days of peace between British and German troops, the truce sticks, and then grows.

The governments and COmmanders may want a war, but an overwhelming majority of lover officers and enlisted man bear no malice to anyone on the other side and refuse to shoot the people on the other side.

This is a time when German Soldiers write poems praising the courage of British troops calling them Lions led by lambs.

And in this TL they are just not having it anymore.

The war effort is stalling out on both sides due to an epidemic of "Here, you want a war? YOU fight it!"
 
What if, in 1914 during the Christmas lull and the days of peace between British and German troops, the truce sticks, and then grows.

The governments and COmmanders may want a war, but an overwhelming majority of lover officers and enlisted man bear no malice to anyone on the other side and refuse to shoot the people on the other side.

This is a time when German Soldiers write poems praising the courage of British troops calling them Lions led by lambs.

And in this TL they are just not having it anymore.

The war effort is stalling out on both sides due to an epidemic of "Here, you want a war? YOU fight it!"

The Christmas truce was unofficial and had nothing to do with stopping the war. It was just a peacetime hangover and a bit of civilzed behaviour. The war was still young and most people wanted to continue fighting it.

There was no way the soldiers were going to go home in 1914. Belgium and large parts of France were under German occupation and the Germans thought they would win fairly soon. No one really wants peace.

There's too much wise after the fact stuff about WW1. The truth is that most people supported it and was probably one of the most popular wars in history. It was only from 1916 onwards that people thought 'Oh no'.

1914 no way.
 
The Christmas truce was unofficial and had nothing to do with stopping the war. It was just a peacetime hangover and a bit of civilzed behaviour. The war was still young and most people wanted to continue fighting it.

There was no way the soldiers were going to go home in 1914. Belgium and large parts of France were under German occupation and the Germans thought they would win fairly soon. No one really wants peace.

There's too much wise after the fact stuff about WW1. The truth is that most people supported it and was probably one of the most popular wars in history. It was only from 1916 onwards that people thought 'Oh no'.

1914 no way.
Ahh, well, so much for that.

(Shrug)
 
The Christmas truce was unofficial and had nothing to do with stopping the war. It was just a peacetime hangover and a bit of civilzed behaviour. The war was still young and most people wanted to continue fighting it.

There was no way the soldiers were going to go home in 1914. Belgium and large parts of France were under German occupation and the Germans thought they would win fairly soon. No one really wants peace.

There's too much wise after the fact stuff about WW1. The truth is that most people supported it and was probably one of the most popular wars in history. It was only from 1916 onwards that people thought 'Oh no'.

1914 no way.


And even then it was a minority view.

Hindenburg became President of Germany in 1925, while in Britain Haig got a huge send off at his funeral three years later. It was only in the thirties that dissent built up in a big way.
 
And even then it was a minority view.

Hindenburg became President of Germany in 1925, while in Britain Haig got a huge send off at his funeral three years later. It was only in the thirties that dissent built up in a big way.
Yeah, I know I already abandoned this idea, it was pretty silly to be THIS naive, especially at my age.
 
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