People are born with some good qualities, even though in the war, we are moved by the lightness of humanity, such as kindness, sympathy, considerateness and love of peace. Nikolaus Sprink was a famous German tenor who left his lover Anna to join the army. At Christmas Eve, he insisted on going to frontline to sing to his comrades even he will sacrifice his personal time with Anna and risk his life. His beautiful voice touched not only his comrades but also his enemy. Finally, with Christmas Eve coming , all soldiers, despite German, French or Scottish, dropped their weapons and celebrated together. The priest prayed for all of them. They sat together and used their own languages to share their family stories. Not for a while, they became friends. Christmas is past, they still truce and even play football together.When they had to resubmit the war, German soldiers asked their new friends to hide in their bastion, and Scottish soldier invited German as well when they fired. Actually, ordinary soldiers long for peace and hate war at all.
However, authoritarians are passionate about war because of their ambition for power. When the authoritarians knew what have happened at the Christmas day, Father Palmer was sent back to Scotland as a mark of shame; Audebert was sent to Verdun; German captain and his soldiers were sent to the train of death to Russia; all people involved were harshly punished after that day. Authoritarians did not care about their soldiers at all; they only wanted to won the war. They sat safely behind the battle and control their soldiers to fight for the territory which does not belong to them. From those authoritarians, we could find the darkness of humanity, such as greed and brutality.
Although humanity has a dark side, we are still touched by people's warm qualities, even in the cruelest war.
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