Christmas Eve, 1944
The Ardennes Forest is located in Belgium and Luxembourg and extends into France and Germany. It’s a sparsely populated region of rolling hills and thickly wooded forests, known for picturesque valleys and charming cities, whose shops and cafes and bike pa...
We fought the wrong enemy.
(Someone) doesn't like you saying that.
There was a movie made about this... What was it's title?
You may mean that one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyeux_Noël
But then, it was during WW1.
Joyeux Noel Mon Ami de Europe.
Reçois la Paix du Christ en ce jour beni, mon Frère.🤗❤️🙏🏻
Silent Night. So good!
My grandfather fought at the Battle of the Bulge and then Bastogne. Crazy shit.
On that same night in the same battle, one of my great uncles was KIA and never came home.
The movie version with Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Robert Ryan and Robert Shaw is a war classic. The scene where they're down in the German bunker and the young officers start stomping their feet and singing the Panzerlied is poignant and powerful.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Battle+of+the+Bulge+Panzerlied+scene&qpvt=Battle+of+the+Bulge+Panzerlied+scene&view=detail&mid=F11EF3BA685BEBF788E7F11EF3BA685BEBF788E7&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DBattle%2Bof%2Bthe%2BBulge%2BPanzerlied%2Bscene%26qpvt%3DBattle%2Bof%2Bthe%2BBulge%2BPanzerlied%2Bscene%26FORM%3DVDRE
This is what happens when the psychopaths are NOT in charge, even for a few hours.
Remember this.