History Main / HolidayCeasefire

* Also inverted during the Revolutionary War, where Washington and his army scored a key victory on Christmas Eve by crossing the Delaware River and ambushing the Hessian mercenaries employed by England as they celebrated a Christmas party.

** One particular German Soldier who was [[EvilCannotComprehendGoo} outraged]] by the Christmas Truce was unsurprisingly UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. When he learned about the ceasefire, he [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/christmas-1914-brought-the-men-out-of-the-trenches-and-the-slaughter-to-a-stop/2014/12/24/1949b1ea-8626-11e4-9534-f79a23c40e6c_story.html reportedly]] said to a fellow soldier, "Such a thing should not happen in wartime. Have you no German sense of honor left at all?" and refused to take part in it.

** One particular German Soldier who was [[{{EvilCannotComprehendGood}} outraged]] by the Christmas Truce was unsurprisingly UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. When he learned about the ceasefire, he [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/christmas-1914-brought-the-men-out-of-the-trenches-and-the-slaughter-to-a-stop/2014/12/24/1949b1ea-8626-11e4-9534-f79a23c40e6c_story.html reportedly]] said to a fellow soldier “Such a thing should not happen in wartime. Have you no German sense of honor left at all?” and refused to take part in it.

--> It has been widely written that during the Games, all conflicts among the participating city-states were postponed until the Games were finished. This cessation of hostilities was known as the Olympic peace or truce. This idea is a modern myth because the Greeks never suspended their wars. The truce did allow those religious pilgrims who were traveling to Olympia to pass through warring territories unmolested because they were protected by Zeus.

* Inverted with the Yom Kippur War in Israel: deliberately begun on a holy day observed by virtually every Jewish Israeli regardless of usual level of observance, with media, transportation, and other usual amenities shut down other than for emergencies.

* "Twice Upon a Time", the ChristmasEpisode that served as the [[Series/DoctorWho Twelfth Doctor's]] departure has him teaming up with his first incarnation and a WWI soldier. The soldier began the episode trapped in a trench with a wounded German soldier, both men prepared to kill each other. When the Doctor returns him to his time, he [[spoiler: fudges it a bit so that the soldier returns a couple hours later than when he left, when the Christmas Truce was in effect.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BooBoomTheLongWayHome'': Episode 24, which is the show's ChristmasEpisode, a group of German soldiers and a group of Allied soldiers both end up lost in the same woods, and through sheer coincidence, they run into each other at a cave Boo-Boom and his friends were using as shelter. When they notice Boo-Boom is in a bad condition due to the cold, both groups of soldiers put their differences aside to help him, which leads to all soldiers realizing they are Not So Different. After celebrating Christmas Eve together, they part ways on friendly terms.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Comfort and Joy", the Ultra-humanite helps the Flash get toys for orphans on Christmas.

* Subverted in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs''. The only reason that the Wolkenritter didn't attack Nanoha and Fate on sight when the two of them came to visit Hayate in the hospital on Chrismas Eve was for the sake up upholding the {{Masquerade}}. [[HeKnowsTooMuch The second everyone else was out of view...]]

-->-- '''Christmas Truce''', ''Music/{{Sabaton}}''

* Invoked in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episode "Wobbu-Palooza!". Since Wobbuffet are incapable of attacking first, all the Pokemon Battles are forbidden during the Wobbuffet Festival.

* ''Fanfic/FamilyGuyFanon'''s adaptation of "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" has Francis and Thelma, the former having a on-off father-son rivalry with Peter in this adaptation, put aside their differences and actively enjoy Christmas with the Griffins

** One particular German Soldier who was [[{{EvilCannotComprehendGood}} ''outraged'']] by the Christmas Truce was unsurprisingly UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. When he learned about the ceasefire, he [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/christmas-1914-brought-the-men-out-of-the-trenches-and-the-slaughter-to-a-stop/2014/12/24/1949b1ea-8626-11e4-9534-f79a23c40e6c_story.html reportedly]] said to a fellow soldier “Such a thing should not happen in wartime. Have you no German sense of honor left at all?” and refused to take part in it.

* As mentioned above, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce the Christmas Truce of 1914]]; Where British, Germans, and French soldiers across the [[{{UsefulNotes/WorldWar1}} Western Front]] stopped fighting to celebrate Christmas together
** One particular German Soldier who was [[{{EvilCannotComprehendGood}} ''outraged'']] by the Christmas Truce was UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. When he learned about the ceasefire, he [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/christmas-1914-brought-the-men-out-of-the-trenches-and-the-slaughter-to-a-stop/2014/12/24/1949b1ea-8626-11e4-9534-f79a23c40e6c_story.html reportedly]] said to a fellow soldier “Such a thing should not happen in wartime. Have you no German sense of honor left at all?” and refused to take part in it.

* As mentioned above, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce the Christmas Truce of 1914]].

* "Twice Upon A Time", the ChristmasEpisode that served as the [[Series/DoctorWho Twelfth Doctor's]] departure has him teaming up with his first incarnation and a WWI soldier. The soldier began the episode trapped in a trench with a wounded German soldier, both men prepared to kill each other. When the Doctor returns him to his time, he [[spoiler: fudges it a bit so that the soldier returns a couple hours later than when he left, when the Christmas Truce was in effect.]]

** Another episode, "Dear Sis", has Father Mulcahy noting (in a letter to his sister) that both sides tend to "get in as much destruction as they can" before one of these takes effect.

** "Death Takes A Holiday", had Hawkeye, B.J. and Margaret trying to keep a mortally-wounded soldier alive long enough so that he wouldn't die on Christmas Day while Charles attempted to continue his family's [[AnonymousBenefactor tradition of anonymous giving to the poor.]]
** "'Twas The Day After Christmas" was a more light-hearted episode where the officers and enlisted men switched jobs for a day. Potter even mentions that they can do this because there is a Christmas Truce in effect so other than a few patients in Post-Op things are expected to be quiet.