Posted on 05/26/2025 10:08:26 AM PDT by RandFan
To mark the 80th anniversary of the eventual Liberation of the islands, ‘Britain Under the Nazis: the Forgotten Occupation’ (w/t) tells the story of one the most controversial periods in WW2 British history, utilising eye-witness accounts from those who lived through it.
In June 1940 Britain abandoned the Channel Islands to the Nazis. 69,000 islanders were left to live with the enemy, facing an impossible dilemma: to collaborate, resist, or tread a difficult line in between. Their words, drawn from little known diaries, memoirs and letters from both the occupiers and occupied, are brought to life by actors for the first time. Leading historians Gilly Carr and Louise Willmot bring together their meticulous research, including recently unearthed documents that shed fascinating new light on this forgotten period of fascism on British soil.
The invasion of Guernsey, Jersey and Alderney was a propaganda coup for Hitler, who began a building campaign to transform the islands into an impregnable fortress. But what started as a so-called ‘model occupation’ degenerated into a nightmare roll-out of Nazism – with persecution, antisemitic orders, informants, mass deportations, starvation, slave labour camps. There was no official investigation into the Occupation but the fallout from the division it caused remains toxic to this day.
Emily Shields, Commissioning Editor at Channel 4 says: “Drawing on incredible first-person testimony, with stories that intersect, overlap and defy each other in ‘their ‘ version of the truth, Minnow have created a mesmerising portrait of life under Enemy rule.”
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Yes, I did. There are couple movies made about this.
I’ve seen Triple Cross. Good movie.
I wonder if all the cows survived???
They made a drama about it back around six or seven years ago. Great movie:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289403/
Also an alternative-history miniseries from 1978 about a Nazi win in the UK; An Englishman’s Castle.
Beat me to it. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289403/
We saw it when it first hit streaming. A very pleasant surprise. Loved it!
Sounds right.
Yep.
Some Channel Islands.
And now 10% of UK is under muzzie control.
The nazis were probably nicer than the college-age hamas protesters today.
Cool factoid. Didn’t know that.
The ones that want shariah are psychopaths
I really liked that movie
Island at War (2004) I started watching this a couple years back, didn’t finish as the Wife was less interested. I need to give it another go if I can find it streaming.
Great response!!
YES
It’s been portrayed on TV for 60 years.
Been to the Channel Islands near Santa Barbara.
“Yes, “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society””
It is also an enjoyable read or audiobook.
Yes, I did. About ten years ago I came across a book called “Agent Zig-Zag”, about Eddie Chapman, a British crook/con artist who became a spy for the Nazis, but became a double agent. I did not remember him being in the Channel Islands, though.
About a year ago I started watching a movie, “Triple Cross”, starring Christopher Plummer, which I realized was the same story, or a version of it. The movie starts with Chapman being captured by British police on one of the Channel Islands, just before the Nazi occupation. They spring him from jail and start training him as a spy. This was the first time I realized that the Channel Islands had been occupied.
The movie started rather slowly, and I did not stick with it once I figured out I’d read about it before.
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