by Nazi concrete bunkers and gun towers. They remain as a memory of occupation, so we can rightly never forget, and many are maintained voluntarily by the Channel Islands Occupation Society which ...

THEY were witnesses to Nazi rule ... that the Channel Islands be turned into an impregnable fortress and not taken back. "He wanted to turn St Peter Port into some kind of U-boat base, the rest ...

The historic site housed 24 Third Reich fighters after they invaded Geurnsey in the Channel Islands. After sweeping through France, German forces took control of the islands in 1940 once they had ...

A Nazi encampment from World War II is now up for sale on one of the Channel Islands, a British territory just off the northwestern coast of France. The $48,000 site — known as Giffoine — is ...

The Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles to be invaded by German troops during the Second World War. Nazi forces began their occupation of the islands on 30 June 1940 and ...

Gilly Carr, a British archaeologist who wrote the book “Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands,” said some think tens of thousands of people died in the camps. Though the exact ...

Seven acres of Nazi trenches in the Channel Islands are up for sale for about £40,000 ($50,000). The heavily-fortified site was home to 24 soldiers and 3 Nazi officers in the Second World War.

But what you may be surprised to learn, as we were, is that two Nazi concentration camps were established on British soil in the Channel Islands, around 80 miles from the British mainland.

In June 1940 Britain abandoned the Channel Islands to the Nazis. 69,000 islanders were left to live with the enemy, facing an impossible dilemma: to collaborate, resist, or tread a difficult line ...

Between 1940 and 1945 the Channel Islands—British territories near the French coast—were under Nazi occupation. There were four labour camps on Alderney. The panel calculates that a minimum of ...

Now, 80 years on, the details of 16 residents of the Nazi-occupied Channel Islands who died in German internment camps can be revealed for the first time. Among them was 22-year-old printer's ...