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The British Channel Islands Under German Occupation, 1940-1945

Author : Paul Sanders
Publisher : Paul Sanders
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780953885831

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The British Isles have only been successfully invaded and occupied once since 1066: the German occupation of the Channel Islands from 1940-1945. This book commemorates a defining period in the history of the islands and an important aspect of contemporary British history.

The Model Occupation

Author : Madeleine Bunting
Publisher : Random House
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473521308

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‘A masterly work of profound research and reflection, objective and humane’ Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Telegraph What would have happened if the Nazis had invaded Britain? How would the British people have responded – with resistance or collaboration? In Madeleine Bunting’s pioneering study, we begin to find the answers to this age-old question. Though rarely remembered today, the Nazis occupied the British Channel Islands for much of the Second World War. In piecing together the fragments left behind – from the love affairs between island women and German soldiers, the betrayals and black marketeering, to the individual acts of resistance – Madeleine Bunting has brought this uncomfortable episode of British history into full view with spellbinding clarity.

The Channel Islands

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015037481416

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The Channel Islands were the only part of Britain to be occupied by the Germans during World War II. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of their liberation, this is a record of life on the Channel islands under Nazi rule, and of the Liberation itself. It sets out to show the contrast between the peaceful, pre-war atmosphere of the sunny holiday islands and the shadow of fear, isolation and shortages under which islanders were forced to live for five years.

Jewels & Jackboots

Author : John Nettles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 099326574X

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"This book was born of a series of documentay films about the German occupation of the Channel Islands from 1940 to 1945 entitled The Channel Islands at war. It is also the fulfilment of an ambition to tell in much more detail than was possible in those documentaries, the true story of those extraordinary years"--Back cover

Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands

Author : Gilly Carr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474245678

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Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands by Gilly Carr Pdf

Victims of Nazi Persecution from the Channel Islands explores the fight and claims for recognition and legitimacy of those from the only part of the British Isles to be occupied during the Second World War. The struggle to have resistance recognised by the local governments of the islands as a legitimate course of action during the occupation is something that still continues today. Drawing on 100 compensation testimonies written in the 1960s and newly discovered archival material, Gilly Carr sheds light on the experiences of British civilians from the Channel Islands in Nazi prisons and concentration camps. She analyses the Foreign Office's treatment of claims from Islanders and explores why the islands' local governments declined to help former political prisoners fight for compensation. Finally, the book asks why 'perceived sensitivities' have stood in the way of honouring former political prisoners and resistance memory over the last 70 years in the Channel Islands. The testimonies explored within this volume help to place the Channel Islands back within European discourse on the Holocaust and the Second World War; as such, it will be of great importance to scholars interested in Nazi occupation, persecution and post-war memory both in Britain and Europe more widely.

Living with the Enemy

Author : Roy McLoughlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Channel Islands
ISBN : 0952565900

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"This book shows that Islanders learned how to contend with Nazi regulations, how to survive and how to trust those Germans whose human side was often in contrast to the brutality of Hitler's regime." -- back cover.

The Jews in the Channel Islands During the German Occupation

Author : Frederick Cohen
Publisher : Jersey Museums Service
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0952751011

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The Jews in the Channel Islands During the German Occupation by Frederick Cohen Pdf

In 1940 the Channel Islands fell under German occupation. The Nazis soon turned their attention towards identifying and discriminating against the few Island residents who they 'deemed to be Jews'. In the following year the Germans began a massive fortification building programme and amongst the workers transported to the Islands were over one thousand Jewish forced workers. These stories remained largely untold until the recent uncovering of many key files and documents. This substantially revised second edition incorporates the most recently discovered records.

Islands in Danger

Author : Alan Wood,Mary Seaton Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015031401055

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Discourse and Defiance Under Nazi Occupation

Author : Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Channel Islands
ISBN : 1628960086

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Discourse and Defiance Under Nazi Occupation by Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp Pdf

Captured by German forces shortly after Dunkirk, and not relinquished until May of 1945, nearly a year after the Normandy invasion, the British Channel Islands (Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and Herm) were characterized during their occupation by severe deprivation and powerlessness. The Islanders, with few resources to stage an armed resistance, constructed a rhetorical resistance based upon the manipulation of discourse, construction of new symbols, and defiance of German restrictions on information. Though much of modern history has focused on the possibility that Islanders may have collaborated with the Germans, this eye-opening history turns to secret war diaries kept in Guernsey. A close reading of these private accounts, written at great risk to the diarists, allows those who actually experienced the Occupation to reclaim their voice and reveals new understandings of Island resistance. What emerges is a stirring account of the unquenchable spirit and deft improvisation of otherwise ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Under the most dangerous of conditions, Guernsey civilians used imaginative methods in reacting to their position as a subjugated population, devising a covert resistance of nuance and sustainability. Violence, this book and the people of Guernsey demonstrate, is not at all the only means with which to confront evil.

Channel Islands at War

Author : George Forty
Publisher : Ian Allan Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015063649704

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"Drawing upon first-hand reminiscences and a superb collection of historic photographs from a wide variety of sources - including private collections - the book details the history of wartime years then brings it up to date with a succinct survey of the surviving relics of the Nazi occupation which can still be seen today." "Channel Islands at War, originally published in hardback in 1999 and now reprinted in paperback to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Islands' liberation in 1945, presents a graphic portrait of this fascinating aspect of recent British history. It will undoubtedly be of considerable interest to all those who study World War 2 in general and Northwest Europe in detail, and also be of particular interest to those who specialise in the employment of the armed forces of Nazi Germany, in a very different environment to that of the usual World War 2 battlefields."--BOOK JACKET.

Nazi Prisons in the British Isles

Author : Gilly Carr
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526770943

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Nazi Prisons in the British Isles by Gilly Carr Pdf

With firsthand sources and archeological research, this study explores life inside Nazi prisons during the occupation of the Channel Islands. Through most of the Second World War, Nazis occupied the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, two British Crown dependencies in the English Channel. With extensive research, archeologist Gilly Carr has uncovered the enduring legacies of this occupation. In Nazi Prisons in Britain, she shines a light on the lives of citizen resisters who became political prisoners on their own soil. Carr explores political prisoner consciousness and solidarity through the letters of the “Jersey 21” and the diaries of Frank Falla, Guernsey’s best-known resister. Drawing on memoirs, poetry, graffiti, official archives, and material culture—as well as the words of war criminals, traitors, surrealist artists, and many others—she reveals what life was like inside these brutal Nazi prisons.

Outpost of Occupation

Author : Barry Turner
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845137243

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The Channel Islands were what could have happened to all of us: a test-run of German occupation. That was certainly Hitler’s plan. Once Britain had demilitarised the idyllic, unspoilt holiday islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark in 1940 their fate was sealed: in July the Germans invaded. The following five years in their history offer an intriguing, and often uncomfortable, virtual history of how Britain might have looked under Nazi rule – and how British people, more to the point, might have responded to it, whether through submission, courageous resistance or even collaboration. Barry Turner’s is the first history of the Occupation since Madeleine Bunting’s acclaimed but controversial A Model Occupation in 1995. It is an extremely readable and above all fair-minded account, rich in personal testimonies, showing the extreme privations suffered by the Channel Islanders, so utterly cut adrift by Britain – even if for defensible reasons of wartime expediency –, and above all the huge moral and civic task required of their pre-war governing class, several of whom could hardly have been expected to rise to the occasion. It also draws on newly released documents in the Public Record Office to reveal the messy confusion of Britain’s postwar attitude to the Channel Islands, a source of enduring resentment there.

Guernsey Evacuees

Author : Gillian Mawson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752490939

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Guernsey Evacuees by Gillian Mawson Pdf

In June 1940, 17,000 people fled Guernsey to England, including 5,000 school children with their teachers and 500 mothers as 'helpers'. The Channel Islands were occupied on 30 June - the only part of British territory that was occupied by Nazi forces during the Second World War. Most evacuees were transported to smoky industrial towns in Northern England - an environment so very different to their rural island. For five years they made new lives in towns where the local accent was often confusing, but for most, the generosity shown to them was astounding. They received assistance from Canada and the USA - one Guernsey school was 'sponsored' by wealthy Americans such as Eleanor Roosevelt and Hollywood stars. From May 1945, the evacuees began to return home, although many decided to remain in England. Wartime bonds were forged between Guernsey and Northern England that were so strong, they still exist today.