Kriegsmarine soldier inspects a historic British cannon during the German occupation of the Channel Islands, July 1940
Kriegsmarine soldier inspects a historic British cannon during the German occupation of the Channel Islands, July 1940
Kriegsmarine soldier inspects a historic British cannon during the German occupation of the Channel Islands, July 1940
Kriegsmarine soldier inspects a historic British cannon during the German occupation of the Channel Islands, July 1940
Kriegsmarine soldier inspects a historic British cannon during the German occupation of the Channel Islands, July 1940
TIL: The Occupation of the Channel Islands by the Germans was a huge money drain for the Nazi's, with Hitler obsessively making them into a key part of the "Atlantic Wall", but alas all the fortifications were easily avoided by the Allies, when they invaded well South, at Normandy. youtube.com/watch?v=jtgzh…
The Untold Story of the German occupation of British Soil. Channel Island Occupation youtu.be/IAE2PeTdkd0
[1976] The Dame of Sark - ITV drama telling the story of the German Occupation of the Channel Island of Sark. Starring Celia Johnson, Tony Britton and Simon Cadell. youtube.com/watch?v=jhaou…
The Untold Story of the German occupation of British Soil. Channel Island Occupation youtu.be/IAE2PeTdkd0
The Untold Story of the German occupation of British Soil. Channel Island Occupation youtu.be/IAE2PeTdkd0
The Untold Story of the German occupation of British Soil. Channel Island Occupation youtu.be/IAE2PeTdkd0
The Untold Story of the German occupation of British Soil. Channel Island Occupation youtu.be/IAE2PeTdkd0
The Untold Story of the German occupation of British Soil. Channel Island Occupation youtu.be/IAE2PeTdkd0
Three German officers standing outside the La Roche Guest House during the occupation of the British Channel Island Guernsey.
The Untold Story of the German occupation of British Soil. Channel Island Occupation youtu.be/IAE2PeTdkd0
[1978] Enemy at the Door - During the Second World War, the inhabitants of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, try to cope with the German occupation. First episode. youtube.com/watch?v=t8GOK…
Propaganda against circulating enemy propaganda from the German occupation of the Channel Islands, 1940. Now in a museum in Jersey
German Occupation of the Channel Islands in 1940 bbc.co.uk/history/topics/…
German World War II tower on the Balliwick of Jersey, constructed during the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands between 1940 and 1945
Dame Sibyl Hathaway, the hereditary ruler (& owner) of the island of Sark, is meeting Wehrmacht officers, surrendering the last of the Channel Islands to German occupation.
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After 603 years of defending their home, Jersey Militia is disbanded in face of Nazi advance in June 1940. (The German Occupation of the Channel Islands, Part 1) historyalive.je/2017/06/2…
German occupation of the Channel Islands, liberated on this day 1945. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ger…
Memories from the Channel Island of Sark of the German Occupation itv.com/news/channel/2017…
German soldiers in Jersey during the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands, 1941 [515 × 799]
"A German air force officer talking to a British policeman in a Jersey street shortly after the occupation of the island (1940)". Photographs of the iconic British bobby cooperating with Reich authorities had immense propaganda value for the Germans [564x800]
TIL that purebred Alderney dairy cattle became extinct due to the WWII German occupation of the Channel Islands, as the cattle were either evacuated to Guernsey and interbred or eaten by German troops. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ald…
Propaganda newspaper dropped by the RAF on the Channel Islands during the German occupation [UK, September 1940]
German Military Underground Hospital, Guernsey, Channel Islands. Built during the island's occupation by Nazi forces, 1940-1945 [OC] [1944x2592]
R.A.F Sergeants Dennis Butlin and Abraham Holden were given a Funeral with full Military Honors at Mont a l'Abbe cemetery by the German garrison stationed in Channel Island of Jersey, June 6th 1943.
Another captured Sdkfz 251/20. This is one of two shipped to the UK for evaluation. After this was done both were scrapped!! Note on the right of the picture a French Char B in German markings (captured on the Channel Islands). This was not scrapped and is still at the Bovington Tank Museum.
In the final months of WW2, what was life like for soldiers and civilians in German hold-outs on one hand in areas with a proper economy such as Norway/Denmark and on the other hand areas such as the Courland pocket, the Dutch coast, Channel islands and St. Nazaire with no supply lines?
A German soldier examines the Royal Emblem of an antique cannon mounted on the wall of a castle on the Isle of Jersey; one of the English Channel Islands, 1940. The Channel Islands are self governing British Crown dependencies located west of Normandy and were occupied by the Germans until May 1945.
During the German occupation of their island, a group of Guernsey policemen were deported to brutal labour camps in Nazi-occupied Europe after appearing before a British court. Their crime? Stealing food from the Germans to stop civilians from going hungry. bbc.com/news/world-europe…
Dame Sibyl of the channel island Sark successfully guided her tiny feudal island through Nazi occupation on the sheer power of her aristocratic personality mentalfloss.com/article/5…
A Luftwaffe officer talking to a British policeman on a Jersey street during the occupation of the Channel Islands, the only part of the British Isles to be occupied during the war, 1941
A German band marching passed Lloyd's Bank through the streets of Guernsey. The Germans occupied the Channel Islands from June 30, 1940 until May 9, 1945.
TIL almost 10% of all the concrete used in the WW2 German Atlantic Wall went on the fortification of the tiny Channel islands. The 1944 allied invasion of France simply ignored them, finally liberating them in May 1945. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ger…
Tunnels and lookout bunkers carved into the hills on Kvitsøy, an island in Norway. The Norwegian Resistance used these to watch for German ships under Nazi occupation during WWII so they could alert the mainland.
I’ve been waiting for weeks for this! A Guernsey Evening Press from February 20th, 1941. Guernsey was one of the Channel Islands held by the Nazis and the Evening Press became their propaganda piece during the occupation, note the Anti-Semitic article on the left of the front page.
Orders of the Commandant of the German Forces in Occupation of the Island of Jersey, July 2nd, 1940.
TIL that during the German occupation of Zaknythos, when asked for a list of all the island's Jews, the Greek mayor produced only 2; himself and the bishop. All 275 Jews on the island survived the war. ushmm.org/information/exh…
Secrets of Hitler's Island Fortress - The Islands of Guernsey(2019) - Locals recount Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands during WWII youtube.com/watch?v=8KBO7…
Channel Island of Jersey has now been occupied by German troops. Island's only newspaper prints rules of Nazi occupation on its front page, incl. 11pm curfew:
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