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Thread #133984 Message #3598155
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
04-Feb-14 - 07:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Subject: RE: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
We'll get round to the execution of the 16 Christian Yorkshiremen for sticking to their "Thou shall not kill" Christianity later
More made up shit.
No-one was executed for refusing to take part in the war.
37 minutes in. Paxman to camera,
"But it seems to me remarkable that a country which considered itself in the grips of a struggle for national survival, none the less allowed individual citizens to decide whether they could reconcile that struggle with their personal conscience. It didn't happen elsewhere in Europe."