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THEY were witnesses to Nazi rule on British soil – and they had to choose whether to collaborate, resist, or walk the line ...
At about 15:00 BST, crowds gathered at Westmount to remember the slaves from Nazi-occupied countries who died in the island during World War Two. The members of nine families descended from forced and ...
Willi was in fact a disillusioned German soldier named Paul Muhlbach who had somehow become acquainted with Le Brocq and his comrades. He fell out with the Nazi regime after his father was arrested ...
There are plans to remember the Freemasons who were forced to hide their community during the German Occupation of Jersey during World War Two. The new head of the community group in the island ...
Washed by clear turquoise seas, the pastoral Channel Islands, notably Jersey, Guernsey ... of their military garrison following Germany’s invasion of France. Confident that Hitler had no ...
Jersey and its sister channel island, Guernsey, were the only territories of the United Kingdom that were occupied by German forces. Ironically, the German invasion resulted in the islands` first ...
Criticism of Channel Islanders and the way they behaved during the German occupation has outraged residents. The comments in a Sunday newspaper follow a television programme about life in Jersey and ...
It is believed that about 10,000 people left Jersey when it was announced that German troops would be taking control of the island. Many families were separated - some of them unintentionally - and ...
The German infantry unit 582, stationed in Jersey, gave Sister Gerda the book when she left Jersey for Alderney in April 1945. Colin Isherwood, from the Channel Islands Occupation Society ...
Four Jersey people will be posthumously recognised for helping people who were persecuted during World War II. Siblings Louisa Gould, Ivy Forster and Harold Le Druillenec sheltered Russian prisoners ...
But Jersey is also home to a rare non-urban British Jewish community with a unique history forged in the face of the Nazi occupation during World War II — the only German occupation of any U.K ...