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tv   Frag den Lesch  Deutsche Welle  December 24, 2020 6:45am-7:01am CET

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whole aim. was.
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to. lol. well the 1st time i heard this song was when i was maybe 3 years old and it was in arabic since. so that's the 1st version i've ever learned to sing and i wanted to and a lot of people in the world don't know that it exists in arabic because they don't know that they are you know christian arabs and i was like. ok let me sing it in arabic and show you that we have our own version. and i love this version i think
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it adds some. authentic. spirit to the song and gives another you know by view to silent night. was was. was. was was. was. was. the. sound. was the it. was the air was feeling and many legends and
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stories surround the christmas truce along the western front of world war one in 1914 in one half probably the most accurate account was recorded by british commanding officer field marshall douglas hake in his diary and. the other british every british soldier received a small package as a gift from the king on the island it also included a princess mary box. which contain chocolate cigarettes tobacco and a greeting card from the princess. of the game set on the other side of the german soldiers received a community funded gift box from their home in towns as well as parcels from their families with warm clothes food with alcohol cigarettes and letters to give it a new place in contrast to the later years of the war there was still no significant
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scarcity of foodstuffs and luxury goods in germany in 1914 or. so the amount that the country's military command also sent tens of thousands of miniature christmas trees to the german front to be lit up at christmas and the last of it was a. douglas haig's account of wartime events is listed in the unesco's world memory register of documentary heritage out. there on this. friday 40 december 1914. and noted down to some omerta dined with the king and prince of wales to. their. king seem very cheery and inclined to think that all our troops are by
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nature brave and is ignorant of all the effort which commanders must make to keep up the moron of their men in war and all of the training which is necessary in peace in order to enable a company for his students to go forward as an organized unit in the face. of almost certain death. i told him of the crowds of fugitives who came back down the 1000000 road during the battle. having thrown everything they called including their rifles and packs in order to escape. the look that soon turned on their faces such as i have never before seen. on any human being.
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on christmas eve 914 and almost ghostly calm had descended on the british trenches the men were chilled to the bone by the bitter cold and the horrors of war. the. law at a later hour. in the german trenches men began singing still and knocked the wind to carry their voices across enemy lines echoing eerily in the ears of british troops hunkered down in their own trenches initially they thought it was a trap until one of the british soldiers recognized the children and began singing
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the carol in english. law with. all. its. virgins. oh it is. silly pinhead am only be. sleeping in the hit game. according to field marshal hades diary entries december 25th 1914 was a surprisingly warm winter. this day. the sun was shining even a hint of spring seemed to be in the ass when a german sergeant made a spontaneous and brave decision.
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and homage to the british book half a combat. but one noncommissioned officer recognised the german sergeant's intentions and quickly decided to reciprocate the peaceful gesture of chopped our shirts ever showed.
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up the 1st person. you are. one of the other well it was like a lot of the old school stuff it was. like this life. and this is how silent night not only brought about a miraculous christmas truce in 1914 it also became a song that symbolizes world peace the 1st west the 6 father took. place was unauthorized it came about soley because on both sides people shanta christian idea the christmas was a celebration of maybelline not. was
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. can. which is ironic is it not that the. abiding memory. of that war should be that moment of peace of humanity. 1915 when i was commander in chief. there were calls for us to repeat that almost this. and we.
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would not allow. to see. it is no good for fighting moron. to see your elderly as human. of course. no good at all. years old and duncan we should be thankful that humankind has the right to live on this wonderful planet of the planet but we call her her house it. is owed to we should look inward high and contemplate the gift but queens to us by more and grew back with their song silent night fear and at the end of us.
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these are we should join together in celebrating the true spirit of christmas and lovingly this community and peace and. on in the end when we hear the 1st notes of the song or sing them our sounds even. then we can get a sense of what you said more from war and france gruber must have felt back then them eyes on christmas and the year 1818. a land land. forming man. on meet. the man.
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