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WW2 German Occupied Guernsey Declaration of Rooms in St Peter Port 1940-45

WW2 German Occupied Guernsey Declaration of Rooms in St Peter Port 1940-45
WW2 German Occupied Guernsey Declaration of Rooms in St Peter Port 1940-45
WW2 German Occupied Guernsey Declaration of Rooms in St Peter Port 1940-45
WW2 German Occupied Guernsey Declaration of Rooms in St Peter Port 1940-45
WW2 German Occupied Guernsey Declaration of Rooms in St Peter Port 1940-45
WW2 German Occupied Guernsey Declaration of Rooms in St Peter Port 1940-45
WW2 German Occupied Guernsey Declaration of Rooms in St Peter Port 1940-45
WW2 German Occupied Guernsey Declaration of Rooms in St Peter Port 1940-45
WW2 German Occupied Guernsey Declaration of Rooms in St Peter Port 1940-45
WW2 German Occupied Guernsey Declaration of Rooms in St Peter Port 1940-45
WW2 German Occupied Guernsey Declaration of Rooms in St Peter Port 1940-45
WW2 German Occupied Guernsey Declaration of Rooms in St Peter Port 1940-45
WW2 German Occupied Guernsey Declaration of Rooms in St Peter Port 1940-45
WW2 German Occupied Guernsey Declaration of Rooms in St Peter Port 1940-45

WW2 German Occupied Guernsey Declaration of Rooms in St Peter Port 1940-45

A very nice & original. Grand Bouet St Peter Port.

In 1940, after the German invasion of. France & The Low Countries. The UK government ordered the evacuation of the. (Crown Dependency islands off the coast of France). And the Germans simply flew in advance troops, uncontested. And took over the undefended islands. So beginning a long occupation of these beautiful Norman-French island communities. What followed was a long, tough but ultimately benign occupation. In Brian Matthews' 50' TV documentary. Hitler, fearing an Allied attempt to take back these 8 islands. Programme as a part of his famous. And the islands were slowly covered with heavy coastal gun batteries. Anti-tank walls and the famous tunnels, all built by. But an attack never came and so the islands settled down.

To an uneasy truce for the next 6 years. Of Guernsey civilians militarily ruled by the German occupiers.

After the Allied D-Day invasion of the Normandy coastline on. The islands were by-passed, becoming instead temporary medical facilities. For German troops injured across the water in.

With the island's underground munitions tunnels becoming. Make-shift field hospitals on the two.

Main islands of Guernsey & Jersey. As the war raged across North-West Europe the islands were. Effectively cut off and the winter of 1944/1945 became a nightmare. As food & supplies ran out, before.

The International Red Cross launched a rescue mission. But for the civilian communities only.. The Germans had to make do with very little..

Happily at war's end on May 8th 1945, the. Island's German garrisons surrendered the day after on May 9th.

Without a shot being fired. Now some 80 years on.

Occasionally documents & artefacts from the. German Occupation of Guernsey still surface. Such as this, island-printed, English-German example. Wesley-ville, Grand Bouet in the Parish of St Peter Port. (on the north east side of the island below St Sampson).

To officially declare to the German occupiers. The number of rooms the house possesses and the people living within. Measuring approx 8.5" x 6".

And filled in with a pencil. Sadly the date was omitted. But with such requirements of the occupying forces being vital to their rule.

It would suggest it to be soon after the. Sometime between 1940 & 1941.

In a good condition for its age & rarity with evidence of fold marks. And age spots as seen in the images. A rare piece of ephemera from'Nazi Occupied Britain. (B/W Images Courtesy of The Tomahawk Films Archive).


WW2 German Occupied Guernsey Declaration of Rooms in St Peter Port 1940-45