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   augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 20:24:41 JST augustus pugin 🌖
   no Christmas football games for the lads in Avdeevdka
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 20:36:27 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     >On Christmas Day Brigadier-General Walter Congreve, commander of the 18th Infantry Brigade, stationed near Neuve Chapelle, wrote a letter recalling that the Germans declared a truce for the day. One of his men bravely lifted his head above the parapet and others from both sides walked onto no man's land. Officers and men shook hands and exchanged cigarettes and cigars; one of his captains "smoked a cigar with the best shot in the German army", the latter no more than 18 years old.
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 20:36:55 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     it sounds fake as fuck but it was actually real
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 20:40:17 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     >The thing started last night – a bitter cold night, with white frost – soon after dusk when the Germans started shouting 'Merry Christmas, Englishmen' to us.
     ;_;
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 20:45:19 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     >General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, commander of the II Corps, issued orders forbidding friendly communication with the opposing German troops.[17] Adolf Hitler, a corporal in the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry, was also an opponent of the truce.[17]
     Hitler seething in his trench like a chud on Christmas
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     PonyPanda (ponypanda@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 20:52:21 JST PonyPanda

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     @augustus the western front has fallen.
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 21:22:16 JST lainy

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     @augustus let's make every day a christmas day
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 21:23:42 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     @lain libertarian guys with asian wives
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 21:26:50 JST lainy

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     @augustus for me the most surprising thing isn't even that they managed to have a spontaneous truce on christmas day, but that they just started killing each other again the day after
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     augustus pugin 🌖 (augustus@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 21:27:16 JST augustus pugin 🌖

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     @lain >Of the Germans he wrote: "They are distinctly bored with the war.... In fact, one of them wanted to know what on earth we were doing here fighting them." The truce in that sector continued into Boxing Day; he commented about the Germans, "The beggars simply disregard all our warnings to get down from off their parapet, so things are at a deadlock. We can't shoot them in cold blood.... I cannot see how we can get them to return to business."[23]
     stupid Germans didn't want the party to end
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 21:29:38 JST lainy

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     @augustus "haha yeah so nice that you came but... it's getting a bit late... and we have to kill you tomorrow... soooooo"
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