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The islands were seriously in debt, with the island governments owing over £10,000,000, [70]: 200 having had to pay for the evacuation ships, the costs incurred by evacuees in the UK, the cost of the "occupation forces", being wages, food, accommodation and transport as well as the cost of providing domestics for the Germans, providing ...
Everything changed on 8 May when the Germans released all British, French and American prisoners of war and all German prisoners held in the islands. [ 2 ] : 180 Bunting and flags were put up in the streets, [ 10 ] radios, which had been banned for years upon pain of imprisonment, were produced in public, connected to loudspeakers.
The Channel Islands, comprising the Bailiwick of Jersey and Bailiwick of Guernsey, which also comprised Alderney and Sark, fell under German control on 30 June 1940.. Prior to this, the lightning Blitzkrieg resulting in the fall of France gave the British government and the island governments just enough time to evacuate those who were willing to leave the islands immediately.
The German soft occupation attitude resulted in Sark people treating the small number of Germans more as tourists, soldiers would be invited to dinner and everyone met in the Mermaid Tavern. The Guernsey cricket team came to the island in 1940 for a local match.
German soldiers in Jersey. During the five-year German occupation of the Channel Islands (30 June 1940 to 9 May 1945) civilian life became much more difficult. During that time, the Channel Islanders had to live under and obey the laws of Nazi Germany and work with their occupiers in order to survive and reduce the impact of occupation.
Location of the Faroe Islands. The British occupation of the Faroe Islands during World War II, also known as Operation Valentine, was implemented immediately following Operation Weserübung, the German invasion of Denmark and Norway. It was a small component of the roles of Nordic countries in the war. [1]
Operation Pilgrim was a planned British operation to invade and occupy the Canary Islands during World War II. [2] The invasion was a contingency plan to be executed in the event of a known plan whereby Germany would support Spain in occupying Gibraltar, the Azores, the Canary Islands as well as the Cape Verde Islands (the German plan was known as Operation Felix).
Wars of the Three Kingdoms - A series of interconnected conflicts within the British Isles from 1639 to 1653. Jacobite risings - A series of conflicts over the succession of the British throne from 1689 to 1745. Irish War of Independence - A conflict fought between the Irish Republican Army and British forces over the independence of Ireland.