A true story based in the Ardennes forest during the Christmas of 1944. A widowed mother attempts to bring together two sets of unlikely guests. Germans and Americans meet in a small cottage and have Christmas dinner together.
It's stories like this that break my heart. People like Franz Stigler and Friedrich Lengfeld deserve so much more attention. I remember a verse from the Bible: "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for his friends." John 15:13 In this case, his enemies.
Fkn heroes thats what they were. I've read about them, too. You should also look up the miracle of hurtgenwald were American GI's and German Sentry's (especially medics) worked together to get their wounded of the fields, both sides were so moved by it that they had a hard time fighting each other in the following days
@flekzyyt9709 Yeah, it proved something to me. The Nazis were without doubt evil in their horror. However, there were those among the Nazis who defied their evil. Brief moments of humanity. And that is why I am broken. Oskar Schindler's story was only told because it gained fame from the film named after him, Schindler's List. Without that, no one would have a clue. I've recently seen a 2011 documentary called Hitler's Children. It talked about the children of those born to the most infamous Nazis. Most of them either didn't want to talk about it, were horrified, or furious of their psychotic relatives. I just hope that someday Germany, Israel, Poland, and other countries affected by thr Holocaust find healing, peace, and closure. To all who perished in the Holocaust, rest in peace.
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Is that the movie where American and German troops take shelter from a storm in a cottage together and they end up singing silent night together. I remember seeing a movie like that as a kid and that's the scene in looking for when I found this
There's a scene where the American and German sergeants sit outside and share personal experiences and then sing 'O Christmas tree', alternating between German and English. It is an awesome movie and I play it every year on Christmas eve.
This is a very well done depiction of the story. From what I know of the story, at the end the german gave the american his compass. That's the only detail they left out and im not sure why.
