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A very interesting episode here, Christmas, in that as usual we rigged up our own stage by putting some tables together and using blankets as the curtain. And we had what entertainers we had - you didn't have to be very good to be up there singing. I found myself up there singing and also involved in little plays and things. And the same with Christmas Eve, we had that type of celebration. We didn't have much else - no special rations or anything for us for Christmas Day. But the highlight of it in my opinion was that we happened to be singing 'Silent Night' - this to me is quite dramatic - somebody called out: "Stop! Listen". So we all stopped and we listened and we heard from the German's barracks they too were singing 'Silent Night'. That was an incredible thing for us - it shows that - scratch the skin of any nationality, there's a human being under that skin that's the same, in a sense, to anybody else. That was a very human sort of a moment - a human moment I thought.