All state powers involved wanted to make sure that such a show of cross-faction sympathy could never occur again and implemented harsher punishments for resisting command.

Well...not really. Industrial Warfare (especially WW1) was what I got my history degree in, and the Christmas Truce was very much the last death rattle of Napoleonic, Pre-Industrial warfare. For one, even as famous as it became, it was a VERY limited event. Sure, you saw most of the line call a ceasefire for Christmas, but the fraternization between enemies only happened at a few points along the British and German section of the line. The French were in no mood to make peace with the people currently occupying parts of their land, and the Belgians even less so. But the British and Germans? There had been some who believed they would be allied with each other, and they had been on very good terms before the German invasion of Belgium (you have no idea how much better it would have been for the world if someone slapped the German generals and told them to stop being so autistically obsessed with their plans). They certainly werent going to turn around and end the war. This was still a time of nationalism, and they were going to fight for their nations. Its just that they had all been brought up with a sense of there being honor in warfare.

Come Christmas 1915, both sides high command were looking at ways to keep fraternization from happening...but they really didnt need to. By Christmas 1915, Gallipoli was raging. The Germans had cracked the first seal and brought forth chemical warfare. The Germans had sank Lusitania, in brazen defiance of pre-war naval norms. And of course, everyone had been stuck in trenches fighting a war they were told should have been over by now. They didnt need to stop anyone. No one was going to do anything like it again. Because the honor of Napoleonic warfare had died in clouds of mustard gas, hails of machine gun bullets, and then drowning face down in mud.

And yes, I do see irony in me being an optimistic person, but my area of interest is one of the most brutal, grinding, pointless, and hopeless wars in history.

As for your other comment, sounds like a trip. Like I said, I would have never expect those sort of problems in a Black Metal band. Glad you like it, even if its not my style (I prefer clean vocals, and I generally like the more optimistic tone of Heavy and Power Metal). I suppose I lucked out, because all of my favorite bands managed to avoid getting drawn into any sort of obvious TDS, and some of them have even said that they are more concerned with the authoritarian nature the world is going on. My top bands at the moment being Sabaton (as mentioned), Powerwolf, Brothers of Metal, Eclipse, Starset, and Smash into Pieces.

All state powers involved wanted to make sure that such a show of cross-faction sympathy could never occur again and implemented harsher punishments for resisting command.

Well...not really. Industrial Warfare (especially WW1) was what I got my history degree in, and the Christmas Truce was very much the last death rattle of Napoleonic, Pre-Industrial warfare. For one, even as famous as it became, it was a VERY limited event. Sure, you saw most of the line call a ceasefire for Christmas, but the fraternization between enemies only happened at a few points along the British and German section of the line. The French were in no mood to make peace with the people currently occupying parts of their land, and the Belgians even less so. But the British and Germans? There had been some who believed they would be allied with each other, and they had been on very good terms before the German invasion of Belgium (you have no idea how much better it would have been for the world if someone slapped the German generals and told them to stop being so autistically obsessed with their plans). They certainly werent going to turn around and end the war. This was still a time of nationalism, and they were going to fight for their nations. Its just that they had all been brought up with a sense of there being honor in warfare.

Come Christmas 1915, both sides high command were looking at ways to keep fraternization from happening...but they really didnt need to. By Christmas 1915, Gallipoli was raging. The Germans had cracked the first seal and brought forth chemical warfare. The Germans had sank Lusitania, in brazen defiance of pre-war naval norms. And of course, everyone had been stuck in trenches fighting a war they were told should have been over by now. They didnt need to stop anyone. No one was going to do anything like it again. Because the honor of Napoleonic warfare had died in clouds of mustard gas, hails of machine gun bullets, and then drowning face down in mud.

And yes, I do see irony in me being an optimistic person, but my area of interest is one of the most brutal, grinding, pointless, and hopeless wars in history.

As for your other comment, sounds like a trip. Like I said, I would have never expect those sort of problems in a Black Metal band. Glad you like it, even if its not my style (I prefer clean vocals, and I generally like the more optimistic tone of Heavy and Power Metal). I suppose I lucked out, because all of my favorite bands managed to avoid getting drawn into any sort of obvious TDS, and some of them have even said that they are more concerned with the authoritarian nature the world is going on. My top bands at the moment being Sabaton (as mentioned), Powerwolf, Brothers of Metal, Eclipse, and Smash into Pieces.