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13 Sep

Aviary Antics

The following entry has been submitted by Graeme Harvey, a Jersey resident who lived through the Occupation years.
Here is an occupation tale:
We lived at No. 2 Library Place. Mum and Dad were caretakers for Edward Falle Le Gresley, Solicitors, and Bois & Bois Advocates.
Up in the attic, Dad had an aviary of canaries. [...]

13 May

Interview Part 2- Rudolph Rueter

This is part 2 of the interview with Rudolph Rueter, a German soldier who served as part of 319 Division’s Signals section posted to Guernsey. He served in the island for the entire length of the Occupation up to the Liberation on May 9th 1945. A lively straight-talking character who has some fascinating, extremely honest [...]

22 Mar

Interview Part 1- Rudolph Rueter

This is part 1 of the interview with Rudolph Rueter, a German soldier who served in 314 Division’s Signals section posted to Guernsey. He served in the island for the entire length of the Occupation up to the Liberation on May 9th 1945. A lively straight-talking character who has some fascinating, extremely honest personal insight [...]

02 Dec

Interview Part 3- Bernhard Weiss, German Soldier

This is the final part of the interview with Bernhard Weiss. He was drafted into the German army at 17yrs of age in 1943 and was immediately posted to the Channel Islands. Here he enjoyed a relatively trouble free life until starvation and low morale forced the soldiers to take drastic actions, including his shocking [...]

28 Oct

Interview Part 2- Bernhard Weiss, German Soldier

This is part 2 of the interview with Bernhard Weiss. He was drafted into the German army at 17yrs of age in 1943 and was immediately posted to the Channel Islands. Here he enjoyed a relatively trouble free life until starvation and low morale forced the soldiers to take drastic actions, including his shocking confession [...]

11 Oct

Interview Part 1- Bernhard Weiss, German Soldier

This is part 1 of an interview conducted with Bernhard Weiss, a German citizen who was drafted into the German army in 1943 at the age of 18. He was a private stationed in Guernsey until the liberation of the islands by British forces in 1945. He was sent as a POW to England for [...]

23 Jun

Interview Part 3- Bob Le Sueur, Jersey Resident

This is part 3 of the interview conducted with Bob Le Sueur, a lifelong Jersey resident who was a young man during the Occupation. Bob was involved closely in the hiding of escaped Russian workers from Organisation Todt, the German company contracted with building all the fortifications that covered throughout the islands.
BOB LE SUEUR
Interviewer: Moving [...]

23 Jun

Interview Part 2- Bob Le Sueur, Jersey Resident

This is part 2 of the interview conducted with Bob Le Sueur, a lifelong Jersey resident who was a young man during the Occupation. Bob was involved closely in the hiding of escaped Russian workers from Organisation Todt, the German company contracted with building all the fortifications that covered throughout the islands.
BOB LE SUEUR
Interviewer: What [...]

16 Jun

Interview Part 1- Bob Le Sueur, Jersey Resident

In this post is part 1 of the interview conducted in August 2001 as part of the filming of In Toni’s Footsteps. The interviewee is Bob Le Sueur, a Jersey resident who lived through the German Occupation. At the time of the invasion he was a young man starting a career in insurance sales. He [...]

28 May

Interview Part 2- Artur Boch, German soldier- Guernsey

Artur Boch was a dispatch rider serving with 319 Division in Guernsey. He turned 17 in the second half of the Second World War and was immediately drafted into a bicycle cavalry unit. He served in Guernsey until the Liberation of the Channel Islands in May 1945. Following this he served as a prisoner of [...]

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