Islands at War
A Podcast about the occupation of the Channel Islands by German forces 1940 to 1945. Focusing on personal experiences of those that lived through it using diaries and our own research. Social, practical and military aspects of the occupation of the Channel Islands.
Join Keith Pengelley and Nick Le Huray as they talk you through the occupation month by month. Oh and we drop our own family stories in as well.
We will talk you through the occupation as it happened.
Questions welcome at occupied@gnetradio.com
Islands at War
July 1940 - Orders, Germans buying everything in sight, Operation Anger, Ambassador and more!
July 1940 and the first full month of occupation of the Channel Islands by the Germans.
Join Keith & Nick as they take you through a plethora of orders, the Germans buying everything in sight and eating pats of butter, what it was like in the early days followed by British raids that were Operation Anger, Ambassador and a bit of a disaster!
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Nick’s Occupation Blog can be found here
You can find more about Anger & Ambassador including photographs here
Operation Anger
Operation Ambassador
Take a look and if you like it subscribe for free. Email us with questions or observations at occupied@gnetradio.com.
The books we referred to are:
The Ord Diaries.
Guernsey Under German Rule Ralph Durand
The German Occupation of the Channel Islands - Cuickshank
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You can find out more about the occupation on Nick’s website Island Fortress here.
Thanks to Gnet Radio for recording the podcast and thanks to Jim Delbridge for the use of his song ‘5 to 7’ as our theme.
