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 [...]
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 [...]
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 of the Channel Islands.
The idea [...]
This story is contributed by Sylvia@Intrigue, courtesy of her flickr.com page
“You can not go anywhere in Alderney without constant stark reminders of the German Occupation. Unlike Guernsey, where an uneasy sort-of truce seemed to be in place where the inhabitants and the occupiers lived together, Alderney was virtually abandoned to the Germans.
Over the five years [...]
