Christmas truce in 1914,World War I. Artwork for a newspaper report on the unofficial Christmas ceasefires that occurred in 1914 in the trenches on the Western Front during World War I. Here,a German soldier is shown opening the spontaneous truce by approaching the British lines with a small Christmas tree. The following year,such truces were banned by the generals on both sides. After a news embargo was lifted,the reporting on the 1914 truces was generally positive in the British press. This report appeared in the 9 January 1915 issue of 'The Illustrated London News'. The artwork is by British war artist and correspondent Frederic Villiers (1851-1922) | |
Lizenzart: | Lizenzpflichtig |
Credit: | Science Photo Library / British Library |
Bildgröße: | 4153 px × 4795 px |
Modell-Rechte: | nicht erforderlich |
Eigentums-Rechte: | nicht erforderlich |
Restrictions: | - |