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.

When the Channel Islands were deemed indefensible by Winston Churchill, their occupation by the Germans became an inevitability. Adolf Hitler saw the five islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney ...

The Channel Islands were occupied during the war by Nazi Germany, as part of Adolf Hitler’s masterplan to fortify the French coast. After the liberation of Guernsey and Jersey on May 9, 1945 ...

Guernsey, Channel Islands: How to get there, ... During the Second World War Germany occupied The Channel Islands - this was the only part of the British Isles under German control. ...

Buried beneath a rural churchyard in Guernsey is a hidden reminder of the Channel Islands' wartime occupation. The entrance to the underground complex - beneath the graveyard of St Saviour's ...

Saturday 9th May 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Channel Islands from German occupation at the end of the Second World War. Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark were the ...

The Channel Islands were the only British territory to be occupied during the conflict. A former Nazi encampment on a Channel island is up for sale for about £40,000 ($48,000).

The Channel Islands were occupied by German forces between 1940 and 1945. The Princess Royal gave a reading at Town Church during the visit to St Peter Port on Guernsey (Aaron Chown/PA) Anne, who ...

The gun emplacement acted as a part of Hitler's Atlantic wall. Credit: ITV Channel Television Each new discovery allows local historians to find out more about life in Guernsey during the Occupation.