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Dec 2017
26m 36s

SYMHC Classics: The Christmas Truce

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For Christmas, we're revisiting an episode from previous hosts Sarah and Deblina. During the first Christmas of World War I, British and German soldiers laid down their weapons and celebrated the holiday together.

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