On Wednesday, 16th of December 2014 the Eurocampus has organized a soccer tournament for St.Kilian’s and the LFI secondary school students to commemorate the World War I Christmas Truce in 1914. There were in total four mixed teams playing together – the red, the blue, the green and the orange team. All enjoyed the tournament and the orange men came out as the winners. All well done!
The Christmas truce marks an event during the World War I where the British and German soldiers played football together in No Man’s Land on Christmas Day back in 1914. Some of the French and Belgians also took part. Most of those soldiers involved agreed that it was a remarkable way to spend Christmas. “Just you think,” wrote one British soldier, “that while you were eating your turkey, etc, I was out talking and shaking hands with the very men I had been trying to kill a few hours before!” “It was a day of peace in war,” commented a German participant, “It is only a pity that it was not decisive peace.”
The Christmas truce is now considered as one of many small but remarkable moments of peace and humanity amidst one of the most violent events of human history. – Adapted from the book Christmas Truce by Malcolm Brown and Shirley Seaton
