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Austro-Hungarian soldier sharing a cigarette with a Russian prisoner on the Eastern Front, ca. 1915

Austro-Hungarian soldier sharing a cigarette with a Russian prisoner on the Eastern Front, ca. 1915.



Although not on the scale as the 1914 Western Front "Christmas Truce", on the Eastern Front, smaller truces between the Austro-Hungarians, Germans and Russians also took place during the war.

It all started with soldiers meeting their enemies in No Man's Land to recover their fallen comrades. Such a truce was reported to have taken place at Przemyśl in 1914, where a bloody siege was ongoing.

However, the Russians used the old Julian Calender and thus didn't celebrate Christmas until January 7, making a Christmas Truce quite difficult to take place.

Although a remarkable Christmas Truce never happened on the Eastern Front like on the Western Front, an Easter Truce in 1916 did, as Easter was of greater importance than Christmas to the Orthodox Russians. Austro-Hungarian medical officer Friedrich Kohn reported:⠀⠀⠀⠀

"Then suddenly on Easter Sunday, about 5 o’clock in the morning, about twenty Russians came out of their trenches, waving white flags, carrying no weapons, but baskets and bottles.

One of them came quite near and one of our soldiers went out to meet him and asked what he wanted. He asked whether we would not agree to stop the war for a day or two and, in view of Easter, meet between the lines and have a meal together.

We told him that first we would have to ask the military authorities whether such a meeting would be possible. The Divisional Commander refused permission.

Nevertheless at 12 noon the Russians came out of their trenches and brought with them their military band, who came playing at full strength, and they brought baskets of food and bottle of wine and vodka, and we came out too and had a meal with them. We also had food and wine to offer.

During the meeting both sides seemed to be embarrassed, but both sides were polite to each other and consumed the food and drinks we offered to each other. After a few hours we all went quietly back to our trenches".

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