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British soldiers bringing in Christmas hollyVintage Audio: German Christmas at the Front
 Updated - Sunday, 2 February, 2003

Available here is a descriptive recording from 1915 - in German language - of life in the trenches during the second Christmas of the war, 1915.

Archive German language recordings are relatively rare; more usual are English-language clips recorded among the war's English-speaking protagonists.

Click here to listen to the descriptive recording, 73 seconds in duration (MP3 format 288kb).

"ANZAC" was coined in 1915 from the initials of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.

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