It's tricky to explain as it is very much a cultural joke but basically, to a lot of people, particularly foreigners, English and British means the same thing; which it isn't. An example of this is where in the media when tennis player Andy Murray wins a match he's the plucky Brit, if he loses one he's the unlucky Scot. Many members of the home nations other than England, definitely feel as though there is a bias towards England in British institutions. This is quite understandable as many of them are based in London. So, in retaliation, if anything is bad then it is 'English' rather than British. Which distances them from it completely. In this case those soldiers were Scottish hence: they're not our guns they're the English guns. As an English person I can say that line makes me laugh every time. The English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish all have their differences and we love to make fun of each other but we always pull together when we need to. Hope that helps!
+Paul Looney hiya, I don't think I've got anything wrong per se, although I'm certainly guilty of putting things in a massively positive light! Of course it's true that many people have a deep resentment towards 'the British', however you care to define it, and not just the Irish. Your point is entirely valid. I just didn't feel that going into that much detail would help to answer the question posed by the gentleman above; namely why that joke is funny.
@@sarahreed9833 I am very convinced that at least some of the Scottish see that a bit differently and do not consider themselves (voluntary) Brits. We will see what happens after the BREXIT
Do you know when the war will end? "After our spring offensive I should think" Even though they didn't shoot at each other, that German officer went home feeling pretty burned.
Le Lenny that was Christmas eve on Christmas some or the British fucked up and killed them when the gemans asked if the were still good. it shows you there's bad on both sides
Так должны поступать люди всегда. Не убивать друг друга ради своих господ, а дарить друг другу подарки, любовь и оставаться друзьями, а не становится врагами.
TweekHavingaBadDay everyone wanted it to end that way. I always hope for a informal surrender. No orangized meeting or formal salutes. just a shake of hands and hugs with tears of the guys realizing "what have we been wasting for this war"
@TalonMercenary From what I've read, the men were rotated regularly anyway. So, the guys who took part in the truce were moved to the rear or one of the secondary trenches and new troops - with no happy memories of the enemy - were brought in. Thus, the fighting continued. They also issued warning and ordered artillery bombardments before Christmas 1915 to make sure it did not happen again.
That movie poster, shown here at beginning of this video, is something straight out of the mind of a pure GENIUS: a lonely, walking general among thousands of crosses! Stunning! Big thx x uploading by the way! Awesome movie!
1915 on Christmas Day On the western front the guns all died away And lying in the mud on bags of sand We heard a German sing from no man's land He had tenor voice so pure and true The words were strange but every note we knew Soaring or the living dead and dammed The German sang of peace from no man's land They left their trenches and we left ours Beneath tin hats smiles bloomed like wild flowers With photos, cigarettes, and pots of wine We built a soldier's truce on the front line Their singer was a lad of twenty one We begged another song before the dawn And sitting in the mud and blood and fear He sang again the song all longed to hear Silent night, no cannons roar A King is born of peace for evermore All's calm, all's bright All brothers hand in hand In 19 and 15 in no man's land And in the morning all the guns boomed in the rain And we killed them and they killed us again With Bullet, Bomb, Bayonet, Gas, and Flame, And neither we nor they at all to blame. There was heavy fighting right throughout the day, for one nights peace we Bloodily did pay. At night they charged we fought them hand to hand And I killed the boy that sang in no man's land Silent night no cannons roar A King is born of peace for evermore All's calm, all's bright All brothers hand in hand And that young soldier sings And the song of peace still rings Though the captains and all the kings Built no man's land Sleep in heavenly peace
The motorbike and girlfriend story the German related is actually true. An English officer serving in the Scots Guards was the one he told it to (just as here, an Englishman amongst scots)
Silvicat Green Germans (there commen culture) is not atheisemcjhsifjcjvm shit whatever you know you said it but I think there Christian (and just in case athism is not beliving in anything)
Those were some really interesting and intellectual comments and then how the helmets compare and i agree with the arguments quoting Christianity as improving equality but it was still pretty slow progress and i like the Germans helmets too they are cool
@remeclerk "there are lots of books saying that if all along the front this would have happened then the war would have been truly over" It is a nice thought but the books are wrong. The Christmas truce was between the regular armies of 1914 who, in the words of Robert Graves, regarded the matter as an exchange of courtesies between professional soldiers. The no holds barred battles of 1916 - 1918 were fought largely by volunteers.
My grandfather was there, Christmas 1915, when his Canadian regiment fraternized with the Germans. He said it happened all the time when the officers weren't looking.
@kopynd The British and German people are rather civilised and honest. I have lived in Germany and England and I am amazed at the similarities between the races . Sadly they both have extremists who know little or nothing about history, yet they rant and rave about things they neither know or understand. It will never change!
@JordoF6 Most of the British soldiers in this scene are Scottish with about three Englishmen. The historical reason for this is that until after the Second World War, regiments were divided according to where you came from, so the Welsh, English and Irish would be in other parts of the trenches, but most officers were English (Partly due to the large population compared to the rest of the UK, and partly due to more people able to afford higher education in southern England at the time).
Millions of Europeans have killed each other on countless battlefields for years upon years, for people to realize that it's better to cooperate and face the world and the future, as one Europe united in diversity and peace! Better late than never...
A wonderful and unique anti-war film--actively surpressed and under advertised in the US because of the already strong opposition to the Vietnam war at that time. For the same reasons, when Hitler grabbed power in 1933, he banned that other great anti-war film, 'All quiet on the Western front'. Cannon fodder ? you bet !
He is saying 'Ta' which is a way of saying thank you. My grandmother was Scottish and she and my mum would always say 'ta' instead of thank you. As to the first part, its just accchh, which is simply an exclamation of emotion, like wow or a grunt of pleasure at receiving something hot on a cold day.
The song the Germans don’t like. My Grandfather served in France from 1915. He would sit me on his knee and sing one of the popular songs. Told me that every time they sang it, the Germans would send a shell over. I keep listening to the songs on these clips, trying to remember which one, driving me mad!
This is why war is pointless, we are all human it dosen’t matter if you are german, british, canadian, austrian, american, turkish or australian this proves that they are all just humans no different from each other. It is insane that none of the leaders tried to make peace out of this.
@SKlegomovies On other parts of the front the fight was going on left and right...and the artillery a few Kilometers behind the front didn't something about the happenings.....
There are some Generals who should have been charged with murder during the The Great War, to send men over the top slowly walking towards the German machine guns and too get cut down to a man once is bad enough, but to commit the same crime over and over again was pure murder . This was because our generals were former cavalry officers and they thought they could use infantry to open a gap so that a massive cavalry charge could go through the German lines causing havoc and bringing glory to the cavalry regiments and try to try to hang on to an outdated form of war .
while Germany bore the mark for their 1st breaking a border, France and Russia were playing the biggest game of "Im not touching you" in history by amassing at their borders with look and want to invade and crush Germany.
There is a wonderrfull song about this by Mike Harding, called christmas eve 1914, listen then let me know, made me a grown man weep. Also a wonderfull ww2 story called 'the shepherd' its a book of short stories...regards and PEACE to all everywhere-p.s tks for the comments sent my way
Curiosity and respect, civilised behaviour and good manners bring people together. Then the political realities drive them apart. No fratanising with the enemy. I wonder if this happens during the War on Terror? Christmas is probably not the time. What about UN world peace day?
Hey i need help here any one seen the animated version of this event? where they go and play a game of soccer??? i realy wants to know whats called as it is the greatest known event in history.. thanks beforehand
@turkzil I think you may have missed the point of this movie. As long as there is an "Other" for us to hate we'll never escape the cycle of war and the pointless deaths that come with it. Terrorism is the worst because it's just an idea. How do you even go to war against an idea?
Isn’t it a shame that when these brave men all met that day and saw who they were actually fighting had just said that’s it dropped their weapons and all buggered off home so many people would never had died just to gain more land for the rich in society and fill their bank accounts with money earned from their sacrifices
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"Your guns are shooting"
"No, it's the bastard English..."
Love that line!
It's tricky to explain as it is very much a cultural joke but basically, to a lot of people, particularly foreigners, English and British means the same thing; which it isn't. An example of this is where in the media when tennis player Andy Murray wins a match he's the plucky Brit, if he loses one he's the unlucky Scot. Many members of the home nations other than England, definitely feel as though there is a bias towards England in British institutions. This is quite understandable as many of them are based in London.
So, in retaliation, if anything is bad then it is 'English' rather than British. Which distances them from it completely.
In this case those soldiers were Scottish hence: they're not our guns they're the English guns. As an English person I can say that line makes me laugh every time. The English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish all have their differences and we love to make fun of each other but we always pull together when we need to. Hope that helps!
+Paul Looney hiya, I don't think I've got anything wrong per se, although I'm certainly guilty of putting things in a massively positive light! Of course it's true that many people have a deep resentment towards 'the British', however you care to define it, and not just the Irish. Your point is entirely valid. I just didn't feel that going into that much detail would help to answer the question posed by the gentleman above; namely why that joke is funny.
@@sarahreed9833 I am very convinced that at least some of the Scottish see that a bit differently and do not consider themselves (voluntary) Brits. We will see what happens after the BREXIT
@@ZardozCologne and there you go Brits
In reality, the Cameronians and the London Scottish fired on the bloody Jerries when they tried to come over.
'Thanks very much mate and, give my love to the Kaiser' I fucking love that line.
He just loved the picklehaube
Time to book it lads
"Your guns are shooting?"
"No it's the bastard English, No us"
great line
"Its us theyre shooting at" cracked me up hahah
Lol
One of my favorite actual events ever. THIS is humanity.
WWI 1914: Europe's Civil War
If only it had ended that Christmas...before it de-evolved into a senseless war of attrition and an actual world war.
Amen.
Brave soldiers on all sides.Led by donkeys
Hi John I saw your post led by donkeys na more like idiots with no brains Between there ears
John Turner ughm ughm Douglas haig
The juden were responsible
Officers died frequently, those donkeys led the charges
Been watching Blackadder?
What a beautiful moment in history. This is why I don't read very much fic tion. Who could write stuff like this? And IT REALLY HAPPENED!
One of my favorite stories EVER! What a beautiful display of actual humanity. Something the powers that be will forever try to distort and destroy.
Do you know when the war will end?
"After our spring offensive I should think"
Even though they didn't shoot at each other, that German officer went home feeling pretty burned.
Yeah but I bet the Brit officer literally got burned in that Spring offensive...
Quite possibly
pretty much lol
The German officer looked down looking for his luger.
soldiers banter all with the best intentions
'How's the kaiser?' LOOL
J M the German’s reaction was funnier like”eh u know doing kaiser things like getting us all killed no big deal”
This is what Christmas is all about
Yes, every christmas when i go home to my family, I am effectively fraternising with my enemies.
Le Lenny that was Christmas eve on Christmas some or the British fucked up and killed them when the gemans asked if the were still good. it shows you there's bad on both sides
Definitely agree, no Santa just peace with all no fighting
What? Drinkin' schnaps and bein' shot at?
Так должны поступать люди всегда. Не убивать друг друга ради своих господ, а дарить друг другу подарки, любовь и оставаться друзьями, а не становится врагами.
If only it ended just that way we probably wouldn't have to suffer all those horrors till this day...
TweekHavingaBadDay everyone wanted it to end that way. I always hope for a informal surrender. No orangized meeting or formal salutes. just a shake of hands and hugs with tears of the guys realizing "what have we been wasting for this war"
I dont think so. There would have been other wars instead.
@TalonMercenary From what I've read, the men were rotated regularly anyway. So, the guys who took part in the truce were moved to the rear or one of the secondary trenches and new troops - with no happy memories of the enemy - were brought in. Thus, the fighting continued. They also issued warning and ordered artillery bombardments before Christmas 1915 to make sure it did not happen again.
Despicable
That movie poster, shown here at beginning of this video, is something straight out of the mind of a pure GENIUS: a lonely, walking general among thousands of crosses!
Stunning!
Big thx x uploading by the way! Awesome movie!
+2serveand2protect Aggred it is stunning and sad. All theese men.
amazing the power of christmas is
That point when we realise that we are all the same. Sadly we never learn it until it is too late.
A well-done reenactment. It felt more real than others I have seen.
1915 on Christmas Day
On the western front the guns all died away
And lying in the mud on bags of sand
We heard a German sing from no man's land
He had tenor voice so pure and true
The words were strange but every note we knew
Soaring or the living dead and dammed
The German sang of peace from no man's land
They left their trenches and we left ours
Beneath tin hats smiles bloomed like wild flowers
With photos, cigarettes, and pots of wine
We built a soldier's truce on the front line
Their singer was a lad of twenty one
We begged another song before the dawn
And sitting in the mud and blood and fear
He sang again the song all longed to hear
Silent night, no cannons roar
A King is born of peace for evermore
All's calm, all's bright
All brothers hand in hand
In 19 and 15 in no man's land
And in the morning all the guns boomed in the rain
And we killed them and they killed us again
With Bullet, Bomb, Bayonet, Gas, and Flame,
And neither we nor they at all to blame.
There was heavy fighting right throughout the day,
for one nights peace we Bloodily did pay.
At night they charged we fought them hand to hand
And I killed the boy that sang in no man's land
Silent night no cannons roar
A King is born of peace for evermore
All's calm, all's bright
All brothers hand in hand
And that young soldier sings
And the song of peace still rings
Though the captains and all the kings
Built no man's land
Sleep in heavenly peace
1914*
Just goes to show what a ridiculous state war is.
The motorbike and girlfriend story the German related is actually true. An English officer serving in the Scots Guards was the one he told it to (just as here, an Englishman amongst scots)
what a friend we have in jesus...
Kingmanification Athiests still celebrate Christmas, we don't go to church or any of that, but we give gifts and spend time together. Same thing.
What a pathetically dumb comment.
Silvicat Green Germans (there commen culture) is not atheisemcjhsifjcjvm shit whatever you know you said it but I think there Christian (and just in case athism is not beliving in anything)
Comrade Silvicat We don't need God to give and spread joy and love
Amen.
How cud they celebrate and sing together, then fight and blow each other to bits the next day. It is so tragic. Total obedience to authority.
"If war wasn't so terrible we'd grow to fond of it"- Abraham Lincoln.
too*
General Robert E. Lee said that, not Abraham Lincoln. ;-)
@@galoon Yep
Idk why my anxiety rises up when this thing happens,I mean I know it's a happy time but I'm just worried one of them will pull the trigger
this is most wonderful happen on earth.its more wonderful than the seven wonders of the world.its havenly records
❤❤❤
Peace on earth, goodwill towards men...
"Hey Tommy! :D" "Hey Fritz! :D"
This shows, that it is the goverments who fight each other and not people.
Thanks very much mate and give my love to the kaiser haha love it!
@tescowath2003 They are the same race...just different languages and country!
Without their commanders they're just young men...
Gotta love the Scots
This made my tears have tears
Imagine what a beautiful world this would be if the spirit of Christmas was kept each and every day of the year…
'Do you know when the war will end'
'After our spring offensive i should think'
i couldn't help but laugh at that xD
Same haha it was a good return sentence.
"Hello Tommy" Me: ??? Thats my name
Dansker power
Could have made great friendships ......
who knows maybe after the war they all reunited sometime later.
Those were some really interesting and intellectual comments and then how the helmets compare and i agree with the arguments quoting Christianity as improving equality but it was still pretty slow progress and i like the Germans helmets too they are cool
This showed that even in war both enemies were still full of the Christmas spirit
Oh damn! They didn't play football
GamerDoge next day
I cried...
@remeclerk
"there are lots of books saying that if all along the front this would have happened then the war would have been truly over"
It is a nice thought but the books are wrong. The Christmas truce was between the regular armies of 1914 who, in the words of Robert Graves, regarded the matter as an exchange of courtesies between professional soldiers. The no holds barred battles of 1916 - 1918 were fought largely by volunteers.
Volunteers and conscripts. The Germans were, of course, all conscripts.
The spikes on the helmets were actually for channeling away slashes of cutting weapons...
My grandfather was there, Christmas 1915, when his Canadian regiment fraternized with the Germans. He said it happened all the time when the officers weren't looking.
This scene made even men cry in tears.
Ein geniales Video! Warum kann der Mensch nicht lernen?
Danke!
***** 'Thank You/ Danke' - From an Englishman
***** Ja, es ist ein wunderbar Video. Machen mir denken zur Soldaten huete.
Gute Frage! Gott helfe uns allen, wir sind nur Menschen. Ein frohes Weihnachtsfest für Sie aus South Carolina!
Gerne antworte ich damit mit einem anderen Künstler / You might find your reply by another artist ... th-cam.com/video/WNt5iK8EuAU/w-d-xo.html
No more brothers war.
@kopynd
The British and German people are rather civilised and honest. I have lived in Germany and England and I am amazed at the similarities between the races . Sadly they both have extremists who know little or nothing about history, yet they rant and rave about things they neither know or understand. It will never change!
We are all Germanic tribes anyway, those of us who are British or German.
@JordoF6 Most of the British soldiers in this scene are Scottish with about three Englishmen. The historical reason for this is that until after the Second World War, regiments were divided according to where you came from, so the Welsh, English and Irish would be in other parts of the trenches, but most officers were English (Partly due to the large population compared to the rest of the UK, and partly due to more people able to afford higher education in southern England at the time).
The regimental system was never as partitioned by regions as that. Men served, and were cross-posted, all over the place.
friend. ship.forever..
Millions of Europeans have killed each other on countless battlefields for years upon years, for people to realize that it's better to cooperate and face the world and the future, as one Europe united in diversity and peace! Better late than never...
A wonderful and unique anti-war film--actively surpressed and under advertised in the US because of the already strong opposition to the Vietnam war at that time. For the same reasons, when Hitler grabbed power in 1933, he banned that other great anti-war film, 'All quiet on the Western front'. Cannon fodder ? you bet !
practical and cool what more could you want
What did the guy said in 1:09??? 'Oh ke tak'? or something???
He is saying 'Ta' which is a way of saying thank you. My grandmother was Scottish and she and my mum would always say 'ta' instead of thank you. As to the first part, its just accchh, which is simply an exclamation of emotion, like wow or a grunt of pleasure at receiving something hot on a cold day.
Cedric Suriapraja 'Ta' = Thank You
The song the Germans don’t like.
My Grandfather served in France from 1915. He would sit me on his knee and sing one of the popular songs. Told me that every time they sang it, the Germans would send a shell over. I keep listening to the songs on these clips, trying to remember which one, driving me mad!
This is why war is pointless, we are all human it dosen’t matter if you are german, british, canadian, austrian, american, turkish or australian this proves that they are all just humans no different from each other. It is insane that none of the leaders tried to make peace out of this.
Pointless definitely but it is a natural condition of mankind and concomitant to civilization. Better get used to it because it's never going away.
5:47 I LOVE THAT GUY
Arti squad:" WTF is going on!? A party in NML!? Rain fire on them!"
This is brilliant aha!
there are lots of books saying that if all along the front this would have happened then the war would have been truly over
it was crismas have a heart
Herzlichen Glückwunsch an die Offiziere !
@SKlegomovies On other parts of the front the fight was going on left and right...and the artillery a few Kilometers behind the front didn't something about the happenings.....
There are some Generals who should have been charged with murder during the The Great War, to send men over the top slowly walking towards the German machine guns and too get cut down to a man once is bad enough, but to commit the same crime over and over again was pure murder . This was because our generals were former cavalry officers and they thought they could use infantry to open a gap so that a massive cavalry charge could go through the German lines causing havoc and bringing glory to the cavalry regiments and try to try to hang on to an outdated form of war .
I always felt like good guy and bad guy wasn't super clear in WW1.
It wasn't most of the time. Thou one could say the comon soldiers were the good guys and the generals the bad guys.
while Germany bore the mark for their 1st breaking a border, France and Russia were playing the biggest game of "Im not touching you" in history by amassing at their borders with look and want to invade and crush Germany.
There is a wonderrfull song about this by Mike Harding, called christmas eve 1914, listen then let me know, made me a grown man weep. Also a wonderfull ww2 story called 'the shepherd' its a book of short stories...regards and PEACE to all everywhere-p.s tks for the comments sent my way
Imagine if all these soldiers linked ul and turned on theyre governments how powerful would that have been
This reminds me of Joyeux Noel, is this the same truce?
yes...........couse it is the only sponateous truce in worldwide wars
Curiosity and respect, civilised behaviour and good manners bring people together. Then the political realities drive them apart. No fratanising with the enemy. I wonder if this happens during the War on Terror? Christmas is probably not the time. What about UN world peace day?
Good....
A bit wrong but still really good
as a russian i say that i could not shoot at them again because these are not enemies... war is the dumbest things human ever did...
Hey i need help here any one seen the animated version of this event? where they go and play a game of soccer??? i realy wants to know whats called as it is the greatest known event in history.. thanks beforehand
this army knows peace than their warmonger leaders..
I'll drink to this! :)
3:50 Hello Tommy!
@turkzil I think you may have missed the point of this movie. As long as there is an "Other" for us to hate we'll never escape the cycle of war and the pointless deaths that come with it. Terrorism is the worst because it's just an idea. How do you even go to war against an idea?
what does the sad face mean?
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Wow, I never knew that. Especially the urine part
Lines were apart only about 30-40 metres not 200metres xD
Alen Šuta they varied along the front
I wonder who really got up for first.... Was it Hans or was it John.... For a moment someone risked their own lifes to shake hands with the enemy....
It was the Germans.
In this case he'd have been called jock.
0:31 Aye the meadow of picker dilly!
Schnapps? It's whiskey. YA!!
@ThatScottishGuy2010 Im sorry, my last comment wasnt that accurate as i thought. My apologize.
Are they scottish or canadians?
4:16 german w a english accent. oh well still good movie
listen Carefully at 6; 15 and Hi is Right ,..
Isn’t it a shame that when these brave men all met that day and saw who they were actually fighting had just said that’s it dropped their weapons and all buggered off home so many people would never had died just to gain more land for the rich in society and fill their bank accounts with money earned from their sacrifices
Imagine if they stopped then how the world would be so different
i really wish we didnt fire back
Minute Artillery hits: RUNNNNN!!!!!!!!
about 43
Imagine there is war and nobody goes there.
Then there is no war in the first place.
imagine if this happened in pubg on christmas eve. 100 players meeting in one spot.
WTF! Bill Burr fought on Germany side in WWI?
Why did they fight again if they were friends
ragingrampage 99 they feared to go to the court martial for treason.
You see the high commands were so worried that their lovely war will end so they crushed anything similar from happening again
Jesus Christ loves you all
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nah it was mainly the Generals who were pissed off by this/