The Christmas Truce of 1914 didn't include the French. There was just too animosity going into the war, at 44 years of from when the Germans won the Prussian War and too significant French territory.
For 44 years, successive French governments demonized the Germans.
The British public, on the other hand, didn't have much animosity. The two nations had never been to war. They had been rivals, but it never came to blows.
The blood feud was there the way it was between France and Germany.
For 44 years, successive French governments demonized the Germans.
The British public, on the other hand, didn't have much animosity. The two nations had never been to war. They had been rivals, but it never came to blows.
The blood feud was there the way it was between France and Germany.
The main premise of one of the sub-plots is the NYPD entrapping people via use of a broken down truck carrying merchandise. As depicted, it was not "clear-cut" entrapment, nor was it entrapment at all. In Jacobson v. United States, 503 U.S. 540, 548 (1992), a valid entrapment defense has two related elements: (1) government inducement of the crime, and (2) the defendant's lack of predisposition to engage in the criminal conduct. In Mathews v. United States, 485 U.S. 58, 63 (1988), the court held that of the two elements, predisposition is by far the more important.
Inducement is the threshold issue in the entrapment defense. Mere solicitation to commit a crime is not inducement. In Sorrells v. United States, 287 U.S. 435, 451 (1932), the court ruled the government's use of artifice, stratagem (such as the truck example), pretense, or deceit establish inducement.
A clear-cut case of entrapment would involve undercover NYPD officers on the street encouraging others to illegally enter the truck and steal the merchandise.
Inducement is the threshold issue in the entrapment defense. Mere solicitation to commit a crime is not inducement. In Sorrells v. United States, 287 U.S. 435, 451 (1932), the court ruled the government's use of artifice, stratagem (such as the truck example), pretense, or deceit establish inducement.
A clear-cut case of entrapment would involve undercover NYPD officers on the street encouraging others to illegally enter the truck and steal the merchandise.