http://www.occupationarchive.co.uk General info, e-commerce and historical archive site relating to the Occupation of the Channel Islands by German forces in WW2, in association with documentary In Toni's Footsteps: The Channel Islands Occupation Remembered Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:43:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.occupationarchive.co.uk/aviary-antics/ 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 ... http://www.occupationarchive.co.uk/interview-part-2-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 ... http://www.occupationarchive.co.uk/interview-part-1-rudolph-rueter/ Hello readers, I've recently added a few new social media functions to the site that mean there's even more ways to keep in touch and also interact with the site. The first of these is we've set up a Flickr photo group- this is for anyone with any old archive images ... http://www.occupationarchive.co.uk/new-features-for-occupation-archive/ 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 ... http://www.occupationarchive.co.uk/interview-part-3-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 ... http://www.occupationarchive.co.uk/interview-2-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 ... http://www.occupationarchive.co.uk/interview-part-1-bernhard-weiss-german-soldier/ Apologies to readers for the lack of new content on here for the last few weeks, as I took a summer break for various weddings and my honeymoon. Now that this busy period is ended, I am looking forward to increasing the content on the site much more regularly and ... http://www.occupationarchive.co.uk/site-update-2/ 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 ... http://www.occupationarchive.co.uk/interview-part-3-bob-le-souer-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 ... http://www.occupationarchive.co.uk/interview-part-2-bob-le-souer-jersey-resident/