Christmas During World War II

TheKroo:   Hello,   Thank you for your feedback. A few words from my side: Both The Challenger and myself are historians, and we try to portray history as interesting facts for you, without tampering with it, or taking sides. We have never stayed shy from exploring different perspectives or views. An example to that if I may, we have had an article about Invasion of Normandy, published during its anniversary commemoration that looked at things from the German perspective: and that brought you Invasion of Normandy – The Guderian Reports. An article that dealt with facts, but also brought a new view on how Germans faced and dealt with the Normandy Landings.     As for the current article: we wanted to write something that would have a certain feel good factor. We wanted to write about people who endured hardships or were away from home, yet find it in their spirit to be festive.   As with every literary project, a subject and a time period must be chosen. Here we chose to write about the Allies, namely the British, and for the period we chose early war years.   I no way are we saying that the Germans did not celebrate the Holidays, we have simply chosen to follow a specific, more narrow literary subject. If we were to expand it to the Axis, then it would be only fair to add the Italians as well, and for the Allies, the French, the Polish, Canadians and etc, to that effect we would get a very broad topic, and we felt like we wanted to go with something a bit more specific - for authenticity sake.   As for how Hitler celebrated Christmas: History should never be forgotten and should be our teacher, but if we have the choice, no need to always focus on the grim parts alone, and thus Hitler was left out. No doubt as meticulous as he was that he was very good at wrapping presents, but I would rather write about something that has some feel-good factor, and less Hitler