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 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:58:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 Souer, 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 Souer, 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/ 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 Souer, a Jersey resident who lived through the German Occupation. At the time of the invasion he was a young man starting a ... http://www.occupationarchive.co.uk/interview-bob-le-souer-jersey-resident/ 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 ... http://www.occupationarchive.co.uk/interview-part-2-artur-boch/ The following is an extract from the novel War on the Margins, generously provided by author Libby Cone. The meticulously researched Jersey-set novel tells the story of a young Jewish woman, Marlene Zimmer, throughout the war years of occupation. We struggle with her as this heretofore timid and nervous young ... http://www.occupationarchive.co.uk/war-on-the-margins-novel-extract/ 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 ... http://www.occupationarchive.co.uk/interview-part-1-artur-boch/ Launching this week is the first of a series of new content additions to the site that are part of a bigger project called the Occupation Archive. This new site will be an online record of personal accounts, photos, diaries, letters and official information detailing the history of the Occupation ... http://www.occupationarchive.co.uk/contentneeded/