Lieutenant Camille Rene Audebert

Darth Cannizard's sideblog for Joyeux Noel/Merry Christmas (2005) and things related to the Great War 1914-1918 and some to the Second World War

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The Arabian Commission to the Peace Conference at Versailles and its advisors. Emir Feisal with, from left to right, Mohammed Rustum Bey Haidar of Baalbek, Brigadier General Nuri Pasha Said, Captain Rosario Pisani, T. E. Lawrence, Feisal’s servant and Captain Hassan Bey Kadri. 22nd January 1919. “The whole history of the Middle East in the half century between 1919 and 1969 is a history of the undoing of the work of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the settlements made after the First World War.” — Jon Kimche, Swiss journalist and author

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Squad of American soldiers listening to one of their comrades playing the organ in the half-wrecked church in Exermont, in the Argonne, France. October 11, 1918.

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Ukrainian delegation in Kiev holding a portrait of one of the Ukrainian leaders, March 1918. It’s very likely in connection to the Brest-Litivsk Treaty between Ukraine and Central Powers signed in February 1918.

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A young Sub-Lieutenant of the Imperial Russian Army wearing the Order of Saint Vladimir, 4th Class, Knight’s Cross, with Swords medal. c.1915 (Colorised by Olga Shirnina from Russia)

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some more coloured cells from my animatic. almost done i promise

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Members of the Gordon Highlanders going through the rubble of the Arras Cathedral, 24 January 1918. The church was almost completely leveled by the destruction of German shell bombardments in 1915, it was later restored after the war. 

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A blanket of snow covers shell-damaged Kemmel, with the ruins of the church clearly visible in the distance in January 1919. The photos are a haunting reminder of the horrors of war.  Ivan Bawtree Collection.

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Daniel Brühl in FUR COLLAR COAT. AGAIN.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary: Everything changed that Christmas Eve night in 1914. A bond formed and then they were scattered across the battlegrounds. The war wouldn’t forget about them but they would fight like hell to get to the other side. To meet on Rue Vavin.

Movie: Joyeux Noel (2005)

I watched this movie recently and fell in love with it, surprise surprise! I highly recommend it. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this. I just really love this trio of lieutenants.

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Daniel Bruhl as Lieutenant Horstmayer in Joyeux Noel

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things in joyeux noël (2005) that make me weep:

every soldier speaks their respective language

nestor/felix the cat. he was arrested for treason and we love him

audebert and ponchel </3

audebert and horstmayer's attempt at friendship

when they agree to bury their dead. they keep on trucin'

WHEN PONCHEL DIES 😭😭😭😭

"you're a grandfather, dad. his name is henri" "how do you know that?" "you wouldn't understand" 😭😭😭

when the german soldiers sing the scottish carol as they're shipped to the eastern front

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With sad farewells we each began to settle back to war. John McCutcheon, Christmas in the Trenches.

based on @mykingdomforapen​ ‘s post: “while I personally headcanon that Schofield didn’t enlist until 1915, I’m nothing if not obsessive over finding any reason to involve the fandom with the 1914 Christmas Truce.”

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Want to? The men involved feel no shame. If they won’t tell, it’s because no one would believe or understand.

I don’t understand you. Carousing with the enemy while the country’s partly occupied!

The country? What does it know of what we suffer here? Of what we do without complaint? Let me tell you, I felt closer to the Germans than those who cry, “Kill the Krauts!” before their stuffed turkey!

Joyeux Noël (2005) Dir. Christian Carion

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History & favourites | moments in time: The Christmas Truce of 1914 

Leading up to Christmas 1914, the first-holiday season since the start of the first world war, Pope Benedict XV called for a truce on both sides to celebrate Christmas. This was refused by warring countries however, along the western front there was some short-lived ceasefire and unofficial truces.

On Christmas Eve British and German soldiers sang Christmas carols to one another across enemy lines. On Christmas Day allied forces saw German soldiers leave their trenches and cross no man’s land, fearing this was a trap the allies were sceptical until they saw the Germans were unarmed. The two camps met at No Man’s Land, shook hands, collected their dead, exchanged gifts and there are even reports they played football. This was not the first time there was an unofficial truce but would be one of the lasts. 

The Christmas truce happened relatively early in to the war and any attempts at a truce the next year was quashed by officers. Even if officers hadn’t intervened, the hostility between the allied and central powers had grown, too much blood was shed for friendly fraternisation, the old ways of war where chivalry was a custom was over. Europe had entered a new age of warfare.  

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British & German soldiers of WW1 declare an informal truce and play a match of football between trenches, Christmas 1914

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Metal base of German mortar on the Tete du Violu battlefield in the Vosges Mountains of Southern Alsace

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IWM WWC H2-144 Nurse Mary Ann Eliza Young, of the Voluntary Aid Detachment, dies of illness contracted on duty on Feb 13 1919

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IWM WWC K4-2-1 Margaret McArthur of the Young Men’s Christian Association dies of pneumonia in France on Feb 13 1919