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Aviation accidents and incidents in the Channel Islands in the 1940s; German Fortifications in Jersey; Fort Hommet 10.5 cm Coastal Defence Gun Casement Bunker; Henri Gonay, Belgian airman killed in Jersey, 1944; Military history of France during World War II; Neuengamme concentration camp subcamp list; Sark during the German occupation of the ...
The fictional island of St Gregory serves as a stand-in for the real-life islands of Guernsey and Jersey, and the story is compiled from the events on both islands. Produced by Granada Television in Manchester , [ 1 ] Island at War had an estimated budget of £9 million and was filmed on location in the Isle of Man from August 2003 to October 2003.
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.
The German Foreign Office response was that British people in the Channel Islands were effectively interned as they could not leave without permission. A rough estimate from Jersey indicated about 2,000 men in the Island had been born in the United Kingdom. This was short of the 8,000 that were needed if a ratio of 10:1 was to be applied.
This Command Bunker forms part of Battery Lothringen, a site managed by the CIOS (Jersey Branch) 10.5cm Casemate at Corbiere managed by the CIOS Jersey The Channel Islands Occupation Society (CIOS) is a voluntary organisation that seeks to study all aspects of the German occupation of the Channel Islands and to raise awareness and educate the public about the occupation during the Second World ...
Everyone fleeing the islands left behind friends and relatives. With the islands under German occupation, communications were severed. In 1941, negotiations allowed the International Red Cross message system, which was designed primarily for use by captured soldiers, to include civilians in the Channel Islands. In May 1941, the first 7,000 ...
Ambrose Sherwill (1890–1968), President of the Controlling Committee during the German occupation of the Channel Islands, until he was deported; Major-General Sir Thomas MacDonald "Donald" Banks KCB DSO MC TD (1891–1975), Director-General of the Petroleum Warfare Department 1940–45; Barry Jones (1893–1981), actor
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. The Sark Sports games took place as normal.