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Island at War is a British television series that tells the story of the German occupation of the Channel Islands.It primarily focuses on three local families: the upper class Dorrs, the middle class Mahys, and the working class Jonases, and four German officers.
Enemy at the Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV.The series was shown between 1978 and 1980 and dealt with the German occupation of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, during the Second World War. [2]
Protest, Defiance and Resistance in the Channel Islands: German Occupation, 1940–45. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 147250920X; Cruickshank, Charles G. (1975), The German Occupation of the Channel Islands, The Guernsey Press, ISBN 0-902550-02-0; Dunford-Slater, John (1953). Commando: Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in World War Two. Reprinted 2002 ...
Louisa Gould (Jenny Seagrove) hides an escaped young Russian forced labourer, Fyodor Buriy Бурый, Фёдор Поликарпович played by Julian Kostov, from the German forces occupying Jersey during World War II, assisted by her sister Ivy Forster (Amanda Abbington) and her brother Harold Le Druillenec (Ronan Keating).
The main inhabited islands among them are Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark. Subcategories. ... Pages in category "Films set in the Channel Islands"
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.
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.
Louisa Mary Gould (née Le Druillenec, 7 October 1891 – 13 February 1945) [1] was a Jersey shopkeeper and a member of the resistance in the Channel Islands during World War II. From 1942 until her arrest in 1944, Gould sheltered an escaped Soviet forced labourer known as Fyodor Polycarpovich Buriy [ ru ] on the island of Jersey.