Heartwarming Historical Moments

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The Christmas Truce is always a nice one.

The Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels were Papuan villagers that helped ferry injured Australian soldiers to safety during World War 2 when we were fighting the Japs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_Wuzzy_Angels

You get a fair few heartwarming stories coming out of those cultures where some honour derives from taking care of and protecting travellers, often found in arid or semi-arid regions.

>>3187040
Sounds like republican propaganda.

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The time a German pilot escorted a damaged American bomber back to safety, at the risk of his own life.

https://g.co/kgs/DJ3fUo

The best part is that the two airmen later became best friends, and died within a year of each other.

>>3187219

Apparently this sort of thing was more common than previously thought. Sometimes, on less important fronts where generals weren't paying close attention, opposing trench lines would somehow arrive at an informal agreement that they wouldn't shoot at each other unless they absolutely had to. In at least one instance, a group of Bulgarian soldiers actually went through the trouble of warning their opposing counterparts that they were being rotated out soon and that they should expect the new guys to be more aggressive.

de gaulle and his daughter pasta

>>3187219
The Christmas Truce was the most amazing part of my favorite war. It was great.

>>3188870
non-gay link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brown_and_Franz_Stigler_incident

>>3188903
Fuck, I thought that link was a shortened link to the Wikipedia page. Better go hang myself I guess.

>>3188911
Some people don't like clicking shortened URLs

>>3187040
>cuck moments in history

>>3187040

When Cicero's daughter died in child birth, he got super depressed for like six months until he decided that the only way to overcome his grief was to posthumously make her into a god, her own temples, priests, etc. It didn't really work out but it was a nice thought.

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>Be Syrian Brown Bear cub in Iran.
>Mom leaves den for food.
>Never comes back.
>Kidnapped from den.
>Get sold to a bunch of Polack soldiers in exile.
>Become mascot
>Polacks feed me treats, beer, and cigarettes.
>We wrestle a lot.
>Learn to salute.
>Learn to march on hind legs.
>Life is good.
>Company gets sent to Italy.
>No mascots allowed.
>Some of the Polacks have a crazy idea.
>Make me raise paw and swear oath.
>Sign some paperwork.
>Am now Private Wojciech Perski. The Persian who enjoys war.
>Wojtek for short.
>Lots of travel.
>Lots of loud noise.
>Comrades keep me safe and feed me beer and cigarettes.
>Be at Monte Cassino.
>Comrades loading trucks with crates as fast as they can.
>Well, why not?
>Load artillery shells onto trucks with paws.
>Never drop one.

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>>3189030
>Be Zookeeper in Edinburgh.
>Take care of old brown bear.
>He was some unit mascot in the war decades ago.
>Imagine it. A bear as a mascot.
>Doesn't do much. Eats, sleeps.
>He seems almost sad.
>Walking by the bear habitat.
>Overhear polish tourists.
>The bear actually seems interested in them.
>Are they-...
>They're feeding him bloody fags!
>Well we can't have that.
>"You lot. What are you-"
>GOOD GOD! THEY'VE JUMPED THE FENCE!
>Some old Polish bastards are wrestling a fucking bear!

During the Spanish American War, 1,500 Spanish prisoners were held at the Navy Yard in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 38 of them died in custody due to disease or complications with wounds.

On April 12, 1916 the Spanish transport AMIRANTE LOBO received the bodies of the Spanish prisoners that died during their incarceration. Col. Nicholas Urculla, the Attaché to the Spanish Embassy in Washington, ceremoniously accepted the flag covered metal lined caskets from Rear Admiral Knight. Rear Admiral Austin M. Knight, representing the Department of the Navy, stated,
>On April 12, 1916 the Spanish transport AMIRANTE LOBO received the bodies of the Spanish prisoners that died during their incarceration. Col. Nicholas Urculla, the Attaché to the Spanish Embassy in Washington, ceremoniously accepted the flag covered metal lined caskets from Rear Admiral Knight. Rear Admiral Austin M. Knight, representing the Department of the Navy, stated, 'As the representative of my government and especially of the department of the Navy, I am charged with the duty of transferring to your custody the remains of those brave men, your countrymen, whose fate it was to die far from the land which they loved and which they honored by their valor. They have slept for many years in the soil of an alien, though a not unfriendly country. Today, they enter upon their journey home. We rejoice with you that this is so; and yet we would not have you feel that we have thought of them as strangers in these years through which they have rested in this, to them, a strange land. What we could do we have done, to create about their resting place an atmosphere not of respect alone but of affection. Year after year in honoring our own heroes we have honored them, with little thought of any difference. Year after year on our Memorial Day, the flag they loved has been planted above their heads.

>>3189087
Shit. Fucked up the formatting. Anyway:
>The time has come when they are to pass beneath the folds of that flag never again to leave its shelter. And so to you who represent the great and gallant nation to which they and the memory of their deeds belong, we commit their sacred dust. Bear it lovingly across the sea, and with it bear to your sovereign and your people the assurance of the heartfelt sympathy of the President and people of the friendly nation in whose care you have left it so long.'
>May your voyage be happy and your home coming marked by brighter skies than you have found in our cold northern climate. You will believe, I know, that our climate does scant justice to the warmth of our friendship and our sympathies.

>>3189041
Only been to that zoo once. Pretty big place. Think they have another wee statue at the entrance too if memory still serves me correctly.

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>>3188870
>>3188903

Belka did nothing wrong.

>Exasperated at the heroic defence of Welfs, Conrad IIIhad resolved to destroy Weinsberg and imprison its defenders.[7]He however suspended the last assault, after negotiating a surrender which granted the women the right to leave with whatever they could carry on their shoulders. The women eschewed their possessions, and carried their husbands on their shoulders. When the king saw what was happening he laughed and accepted the women's clever trick, saying that a king should always stand by his word.[8]

>>3189342
Are you in the right thread?

>>3188933
Did the child survive?

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>Hi, mister.
>Whatcha doin?

>>3190066
Of course. She was a god after all.

>>3191868
>"Fuck off taig slag"

>>3187040
>they are our people
>but we arent going to fight for them or anything. Please dont do it again.