22 Mar
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 […]
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11 Oct
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 […]
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23 Jun
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
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28 May
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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