Under Nazi occupation of Guernsey simple acts like sharing news led to deportation and prison. ... German armed forces ruled the Channel Islands from June 1940 until May 1945.

The World War Two bombing of tomato trucks in St Peter Port harbour has been described by a local historian as the "blackest day" in Guernsey history ... Port heralded the beginning of the German ...

Guernsey must not forget the Nazi occupation of the island, according to the German Ambassador to the UK. Georg Boomgaarden said people needed to remember the unique historical impact of World War ...

Hitler considered the Channel Islands - Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and Herm - a valuable landing stage for the invasion of mainland France, as they sat just 20 miles off the French coast.

Two days later, 15,000 German troops landed and occupied the island without resistance. A week earlier 17,000 islanders, mainly children, had been evacuated on 70 Dutch cattle transport boats.

The German Occupation of the Channel Islands during World War Two changed life in the islands and affected everyone. From schoolchildren who were evacuated before the occupiers arrived, to ...

It is the first time German military have been in uniform on the island since the wartime occupation, which lasted until 1945. Image: The last time the people of Guernsey saw German soldiers ...

A couple who were forced apart by the German occupation of Guernsey have celebrated 60 years of marriage. Martin and Winifred Le Page were born in the island in 1924 and attended infants school ...

Under Nazi occupation of Guernsey simple acts like sharing news led to deportation and prison. ... German armed forces ruled the Channel Islands from June 1940 until May 1945.

In 1940 their countrymen invaded and occupied but almost 80 years later, German soldiers have returned to Guernsey as friends. A small group of German soldiers were invited to join British soldiers to ...