WW2 German Occupied Jersey Proclamation by Oberst Heine on'D-Day' June 6th 1944

A very nice original & framed. 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.

The island's underground munitions tunnels then became. Make-shift field hospitals on the two. Main islands of Guernsey & Jersey. And a smaller on on the northernmost island of Alderney. 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 of the Channel islands still surface. Such as this, Jersey-printed, English-German example. Warning all Jersey men & women to. Remain calm as a result of the Allied invasion of Normandy. And to not engage in any acts of sabotage. Or hostile acts against German forces, should. The fighting spread to Jersey.. Measuring approx 12" x 8". And nicely framed this is a. Rare piece of ephemera from'Nazi Occupied Britain. (B/W Images Courtesy of The Tomahawk Films Archive). (Coloured images of Alderney Courtesy of Brian Matthews).

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