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More information about: German Occupation of the Channel Islands Hitler considered the Channel Islands - Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and Herm - a valuable landing stage for the invasion of ...
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 ...
Over the 5-year occupation, civilians struggled under German rule, providing us with a glimpse into what life could have been like if the Germans had successfully invaded Britain.
This video takes you on a journey to see how life was under Nazi occupation, and how the Channel Islands were affected.
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 ...
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.
To mark the 80th anniversary of the eventual Liberation of the islands, ‘Britain Under the Nazis: the Forgotten Occupation’ (w/t) tells the story of one the most controversial periods in WW2 ...
The Society was formed in 1971 not only to preserve and record all aspects of the German occupation of the Channel Islands, but also to promote friendship and reconciliation between former enemies.
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 does an outstanding job in documenting ...
A HISTORIAN will be discussing the unresisted German occupation of the Channel Islands in World War II.