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 * __The life of a German soldier__**

August 5th, 1914 Dear diary, We are marching south to the north end of France. I hear that we are also attacking Belgium in order to flank France. I am disappointed about this because of Belgium’s neutrality. I am also very nervous and frightful, because this will be my first time in battle. However, I have a very good shot with my mauser, even if it is a heavy rifle. We are only a few miles away from France and I have begun to gain confidence in myself and I am no longer nervous. In my opinion, the French stand no chance against our machine guns and willpower.

December 20th, 1914 Dear diary, These muddy trenches are demoralizing, men are getting sick, and we are outnumbered by the attacking French. I desperately hope I survive until Christmas. I am no longer a rifleman; I now man a machinegun in the trenches with another German soldier. The battle of Champaign will be a bloody battle; the French are going to regret attacking us while we are in our heavily fortified trenches. I hope the French take heavy casualties, they have put my brothers and I through heck, and now it is our turn.

December 25, 1914 Dear diary This is the best I have felt in almost an entire year. I woke up this morning and thought I would be shooting more enemy soldiers. Little did I know, my fellow soldier told me there would be a cease fire. At first I wanted to take this opportunity to explore no mans land, and look for key enemy machine gun position in their trenches. I soon found other British and French soldiers discovering the miracle. My friend and I decided to take a break and play soccer in the muddied no mans land. As we began to play other British and French soldiers joined us. Afterword, we began to converse and I found out they were actually good people. I am going to resign in a week because after speaking to those soldiers I could not go through killing people who were almost the exact same as me.

Ww1 in 1918 Google  Christmas truce at the World War 1 front December 18, 2009< [] > Russian surrender Google, AGEOD December 19<http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/timeline_of_world_war_one.html.