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Protest, Defiance and Resistance in the Channel Islands: German Occupation, 1940–45. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 147250920X; Cruickshank, Charles G. (1975), The German Occupation of the Channel Islands, The Guernsey Press, ISBN 0-902550-02-0; Dunford-Slater, John (1953). Commando: Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in World War Two. Reprinted 2002 ...
On 2 June 1941 Adolf Hitler asked for maps of the Channel Islands; these were provided the next day. By 13 June Hitler had made a decision. He ordered additional men to the Islands and, having decided the defences were inadequate, lacking tanks and coastal artillery, he instructed the Organisation Todt (OT) to undertake the building of 200-250 strongpoints in each of the larger islands.
Channel Islands Liberated- the End of German Occupation, Channel Islands, 1945 D24595. Receiving a message from the Germans agreeing to a meeting at midnight on 8–9 May, the ships returned to the same south west coast location off Guernsey and a German minesweeper M4613 came out to meet HMS Bulldog. The German second in command, Generalmajor ...
It supplied more than 119,000 food parcels during its first visit to Guernsey in 1944. ... Paul Le Pelley, vice president of the Channel Islands Occupation Society in Guernsey, said it was an ...
A recently-found letter written by a Guernsey man during the German Occupation shows the extent of the island's food crisis during World War Two. Claude Rondel started writing to his family in the ...
During their migration to Brittany, Britons occupied the Lenur islands (the former name of the Channel Islands [6]) including Sarnia or Lisia (Guernsey) and Angia (Jersey). It was formerly thought that the island's original name was Sarnia, but recent research indicates that this might have been the Latin name for Sark. [7]
After D-Day, on the 6 June 1944, she was put to work listening to the Channel Islands frequency. She thought she was listening to messages being sent from Jersey. "But no, it was Guernsey, call ...
The German occupation of the Channel Islands during the Second World War essentially by-passed Herm. The island was claimed on 20 July 1940 by Nazi Germany , [ 4 ] a few weeks after the arrival of German troops in Guernsey and Jersey ; German soldiers landed on the island to shoot a propaganda film, The Invasion of the Isle of Wight . [ 4 ]