On this day, 111 years ago, during World War I, enemy soldiers laid down their weapons, shared food and songs, and reminded the world of our shared humanity - the Christmas Truce of 1914.

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Christmas in the trenches - 1910s

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The Last Jew In Vinnitsa, 1941

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“Forest Brothers” – post-war anti-Soviet partisans in the Baltic states

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Georges Blind, a member of the French resistance, smiling at a German firing squad, 1944

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The transition from black and white to colour in Peter Jackson's "They Shall Not Grow Old", a documentary film about life on the front lines for British WWI soldiers

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A US soldier guards a group of German prisoners of war captured on Omaha Beach: teenagers and old men. June 6, 1944.

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A Marine smiles while reading mail in a foxhole on Iwo Jima, 1945

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Victorious British Soldiers resting after the Battle of St Quentin Canal, Northern France 1918

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Soldiers of Czech legion on armoured train during Russian civil war (1918)

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Jewish soldiers in the German army at a Yom Kippur service, 1915

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The Defiance: Himmler and a prisoner locked in a staring contest, 1941

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Marine approaches a Japanese soldier on Iwo Jima, March 16, 1945. The soldier had been buried for 36 hours in a shell hole, pretending to be dead, with a live grenade just inches from his hand.