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Orders of the Commandant of the German Forces in Occupation of the Island of Jersey, 2 July 1940. The Germans organised their administration as part of the department of Manche, where it was de facto incorporated into Vichy France but administered as part of military government Area A based in St. Germain in the occupied part of France.
Civilians: about 150, mainly air raids, deportees and in prisons (excludes Island deaths from malnutrition and the cold) A higher percentage of civilians died in the islands per head of pre-war population than in the UK. From the people who had left the Islands in 1939/40 and been evacuated in 1940, 10,418 islanders served with Allied forces.
The evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940 was an organised, partial, nautical evacuation of Crown dependencies in the Channel Islands, primarily from Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney to Great Britain during World War II. The evacuation occurred in phases, starting with school aged children, their teachers, and mother volunteers.
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Liberation sculpture in front of Pomme d'Or Hotel, Jersey. The Channel Islands, Crown Dependencies of the United Kingdom, were occupied during the Second World War by Nazi Germany, from 30 June 1940 until May 1945. They were liberated by British forces following the general German surrender.
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.
During the German occupation of the Channel Islands, there was limited resistance.The islands had a very high number of German soldiers compared to the civilian population, one soldier for every 2-3 civilians, which reduced options; this linked to the severe penalties imposed by the occupiers meant that only forms of non-lethal resistance were used by the population.
Paulsboro is in an uphill battle finding relatives of 30 World War II dead as its ready to take out of safe storage a hefty plaque to their memory.