Best regards from Germany. May this Island find peace for ever. I have been to Jersey in the 90's as a kid. We were staying at a very nice local familys' house with kids at my age. Must have been 12 or 13 and speaking the best English in my family. We played football, tennis and I learned the cricket rules. My grandfather was 16 when he was forced into the wehrmacht. Wounded an traumatized as a POW. He was beaten up many times by British guards. Never hated the British and made a visit to London in his 70s. It makes me keep my faith in humanism to see people forgive and make their peace. Thanks Canal Island people.
I was born in African Libya durring the occupation by Rommels Afrika Corps ,i was too young to put together any real memorys but i do have small memorys of German troops helping my mother harvest our crops,through storys my mother told us we know that while we were living under German control was the best life a christian family could ever have in islamic Libya ,i dont have any memorys as a child of having fun or being able to openly play outside after the war ended because the purge of Christians began immediately following the war & we lived in terror .
I’m genuinely saddened to read some of the memories no one should every endure. Especially a Child. Your mom seemed Lovely. I’m happy you are able to speak on your actually memories. I wondered how did this awful tragic /situation effect you as an adult? Rather good or bad. I truly pray you where able to have a happy life. Be Great to All here🙏🏽
Next time in tunnels or caves bring something more than a penlight. We cannot make out anything with the narrow beam zigging and zagging, momentarily pausing.
I have spent a few weeks in total on all the Chanel islands investigating. Fascinating and beautiful islands. However the makers of this program should be ashamed of themselves for not even mentioning the 12000 slave workers who built the fortification and every thing else!! They where mostly Russians and Jews. There are mass graves all over the place for them. Did they have a jolly and romantic time during the occupation of the islands? I doubt it. One of your interviewees even referred to starving slaves breaking into her house to steal food. How is it possible to call this a historical program on the wartime buildings etc when you neglect to deal with the appealing human suffering of the slave workers who built everything!!! Very very poor show.
Fantastic program. It is a crime to leave all of that history rotting away at the bottom of the quarry in Alderney. Bring it up and put it on show for future generations to see.
@Logic genius I don't know if you are "Up on" the background to the "Falkland Crisis" Early in 1982 Margaret Thatcher rescinded the British Citizenship of the people of: The Falklands, Tristan da Chuna, St Helena, and South Georgia. Sending all the wrong messages to the Argentine Junta. The same way the USA sucked Iraq into the first gulf war. Sadaam Hussain asked the USA ambassador re: Kuwait the reply was: "The USA has no interests in Kuwait"
@@gordonpeden6234 she caused trouble for sure … what a thing to do , rescind citizenship to a very small group of people, how on earth was that going to save any money ? Especially in light of present world emigration…..
I found this very informative. I would enjoy additional documentaries covering more of the same subject, especially with interviews of decendents and photographs of the time.
Interesting video with some great content, unfortunately the use of the still at 26 minutes from the 80s TV show Enemy At The Door to illustrate German troops might have been a mistake
I very much enjoyed this documentary, but I do see an issue. The picture presented at about 26:30 of German officers is from a mini-series from 1978 called, "Enemy at the Door." The mini-series is about the occupation, and it is set, mostly, in Guernsey.
Underneath the uniform, after all, we are all human. Capable of the best and the worst... Excelent Work. I would like to visit Guernsey because of this story.
Thanks for posting such an interesting video. Thanks also to UA-cam, for trying to force me to watch the same crappy commercials repeatedly every six minutes.
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Nice to know my place of birth is appreciated like this. Living here all one’s life you get used to looking at the bunkers and the fortifications but watching this really brings interest back to this small islands history.
Yes one seeing it all ones life You tend to not realize the importance. I would be exploring myself but, that is just me!!! 😂😂😂😎 Bless you and yours this New Year!!! 🙏❤🇺🇸😊
WoW, I never knew anything of this place as they have hidden it for some reasons...... there is nothing wrong w/ a person having Pride for their Nation but the globalist elites of this world have tried to remove that sentiment from all of us out of fear that it might unite the people? Lately I've been glad to see people of the UK waving their Flags around & you lived w/ the good/bad of this place so you deserve to be heard in both your pride or disdain for any thing that happened way back then. This is an amazing piece of video..... but why has this not been told? Do you know why it might be hidden from history or was it so small that they forgot? I think they didn't want this story to come out..... do you know? peace & God Bless.
Wow, How amazing, will there be a follow up regarding the military archaeology in that bay ? unbelievable to see just a small part. Will anyone finance pulling the hardware out of the sea for prosperity ?
Hey this is the guy that advertise History Channel. He says it's like the Netflix of History. Gosh I see that advertisement at least six times a day on UA-cam. It's finally nice to see this guy actually get it one video for himself. He always says it's the Netflix of History. This gentleman advertises the history Network but I never see him do any history documentaries.
Plenty in Jersey also.. These fortifications it is said we're built by prisoners of war.. Russians, Poles, Slovaks amonst others.. It was also said many ended up as part of these fortifications...
I played as a child in the bunkers and military hospital in Jersey. Very large in scale, some kids did some digging round and rode their bikes home wearing German helmets and webbing. For a while there was a trade with the island's antique dealers....they were common enough to be used as boat bailers...this was in the 60's
This is a fascinating documentary. The wartime stories of peoples lives, the scale of the fortifications. Also the significance and opportunities of what was discarded in the quarry. Documentaries like these really deserve more airtime than the reconstituted cr@p they usually put on TV.
Can you tell me/us why the bunker(s) were filled with 80 tons of bricks etc in the 1980's with yet to be discovered and removed coins and various other items. That was a large project. Who created it, payed for it and why?
I lived on Sark for a while and then moved to Guernsey fpr a couple of years, such beautiful islands and the people are fantastic , big up Mrs Peree hows little Sark and the Silver mine....
Failing to mention and discuss the thousands of forced labor slaves doing the defensive installation constructions on minimum food rations seven days a week till death.
Personally I found the attempt throughout this film to empathize with the III Reich's occupying forces & present their presence as some kind of student exchange programme, & create a sentimental picture of an island idyll of their presence, whilst making no mention of the Todt slaves who built the Atlantic Wall fortifications on the island, rather unsettling.
German records show that in May 1943 there was a total of 16,000 foreign workers in Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney. In November 1943 numbers had fallen to 8,959 and by July 1944 only 817 remained.
Excellent Excellent Excellent documentary 🇩🇪🇬🇧👍 love history, love discovery, love passing down the past. Learning from history. Dan, on your dive, didn't you find something small like a pistol, rifle, a shell for your efforts? Could you keep a trinket or would it be property of the island and a museum? Is there a follow up story, I hope? ✌️🇺🇲
Nice! I thing that interests me about New Zealand is the Hacca, in rugby. I don't really like the Hacca, but I read about the history of it and I found it quite interesting. I don't think New Zealand ever really gets mentioned but I think if someone did do research on it I think it would be quite interesting. I think that's what I don't like, you learn lots about Britain and the history, but you never learn about commonwealth countries, or other countries in general. I think it's a shame.
Na Escócia em 1976, fiz parceria com um alemão, Wilhelm, com um barco de pesca antigo que eu restaurei. Durante WW2 ele estava parte da guarnição nessas ilhas. Como muitos outros alemães nas ilhas, ele estava um pacifista e quando chamado para enlistar no começo da guerra, ele recusou. Ameaçado com morte, ele não pudesse mais resistir. Mas os Nazis sabiam que essas pessoas pacifistas não vão a luta, mas ainda pudessem ser úteis. Assim o caráter desses soldados estava bem diferente. Ele mesmo estava uma pessoa muito doce. No fim da guerra quando as ilhas estavam bloqueadas, ele quase morreu de fome e ficou surdo permanentemente. Ele assertou que preferia ser cego que surdo. Música estava muito importante na vida dele antes. Foi preso na Escócia mas encontrou uma escocesa e quando liberado, casou e ficou lá. Eu ainda tenho saudades dele.
Very interesting indeed. I have been to Guernsey on a few occasions, but didn't realise how prolific the Germans were in relation to hardware and fortresses. Thank you for the upload.
This was a nice episode. Great stories. Also very nice to see how they restored these remarkable island fortifications and complex bunkers. Wish more people and historians could come together and restore more bunkers all over Europe for all generations to see. Open them up clean them and fix them. History should not roth away or be buried and forgotten.
I agree. I will never completely understand why so much WW2 history was to be buried away. Sure, at the time it could have been traumatizing, but this is one of the biggest events in human civilization ever.
Dan that was an excellent presentation. I agree the islands are fascinating. As a private pilot during the 1980's and 90's I visited several times and would liked to have retired there - except you need a lot of capital to do so. Your passion for history is infectious. Thanks Phil Robinson.
It is no mystery why the Islands remained in German hands until the final surrender. Winston Churchill said ` I will not sacrifice one single Aliied life to liberate that nest of collaborators` .
Remember that France and England were once the same nation. After the English lost their continental territories the English retained the islands under the treaty of Paris in 1259.
Britain and the Channel Islands were French. Cornwall language is closely related to French. I believe there was a place in Asia that was known for travelling slowly took over the southwest. Which lead to pirates. Another place in Asia took over the rest of Britain. But the countries weren't always in the current position. So Europe was most likely where Asia is now, and Asia where Europe is now. African also a travelling country, hence lots of places were dominated by Africans. Europe then took over.
omer hafeez The Queen of England is actually Notre Duc, here in the Channel Islands. This dates back to when William, Duke of Normandy became King of England after defeating King Harold at the battle of Hastings in 1066. The Channel Islands were part of the Duchy of Normandy and remained so until King John lost Normandy to France. After which the Channel Islands maintained their allegiance to the English monarchy, despite numerous attempts by the French to retake the Islands. The Channel Islands have a long and fascinating history which is well worth reading. Jersey was instrumental during the English Civil War and remained loyal to the monarchy and sheltered Charles the 2nd prior to him returning to England to restore the monarchy after Oliver Cromwell’s defeat.
Attenborrough was never in front of the camera as much is this clown. But it appeals to the masses, that is why they do it. Selling to the lowest common denominator. Enjoy it. Jonnie.
I agree with your synopsis of modern British 'documentaries'. Basically some academic being filmed trotting around on a field trip with an occasional photo. Every ten minutes you get a basic concept. It is filling up tv hours.
Indeed - and this where pioneering individuals like Mark Felton come in and provide in a week a product better than an entire TV channel can achieve in a month!
Its interesting that the tanks the curator said were found in the quarry, FT17, were old French ones the Germans had commandeered. Like the recycled gun. They evidently gave the islands less than frontline status.
Interesting film, but although in the begining it's mentioned that the Germans, overall were kind to the local population, and although a lot is mentioned about the under ground tunnels, nothing is mentioned about the suffering of the Russian prisoners of war, who were used as force labour, starved to death and when they died, they were just thrown into those big concrete walls. Sorry, but this film is only about memorabilia without mentioning nothing about the human suffering that is caused by war.
They were not starved to death because you can't be a weak person to work with all this concrete and iron. And I doubt the dead ones were put in the concrete because that would not be very strong walls. These are just stories. My father had to do force labour in a tank factory near Berlin and he said they were well fed, better than his family that lived in Belgium. And they had one day off in the week (don't know about Russian POW though). In this case: not until Churchill decided to let the occupiers AND his own people starve to death.
This is amazing. Thank you for doing a documentary on Guernsey. It's a part of my life through family. Just awesome to see it's fascinating WW2 history represented.
My boss Herr Ernst Woderer at Gasthof Schwartzer Adler Hotel Streitberg ,Bavaria in the 1970,s was a young German soldier whose first posting was to these isles in 1940-he was a Sudeten German born 1922 as Germany annexed it in the late 1930,s. In 1945 he was captured when the nazis surrendered and taken prisoner to Scotland-he was repatriated in 1948 but complained he was booted out of the lorry at Aachen,700 miles from his home in Munich !
NOTE TO TIMELINE PRODUCTION STAFF AND PRESENTER: The next time you venture into a dark tunnel and want to show us the contents, stuff the itty-bitty penlight and throw some REAL light onto the specimens. You wasted that part of the presentation that some of us would liked to see. We know what the talking head with the penlight looks like. Shine a light on the subject of the video. It boggles the mind that you even need to be reminded of this.
and what does that have to do with this occupation and the civillians? the commando order was to execute British captured Commandos, it had nothing to do with civilian population
ironically, the Channel Islands remained occupied until after the war. a successful Kriegsmarine raid was even conducted on a Normandy costal installation in 1945 from the islands.
Saw a just post war photo once, a small cove had hundreds of German steel helmets thrown In, at depth, as you could clearly see the lids at the top of the pile, above the water. Maybe it was this quarry, just imagine!!
Great programe but there was no talk about the German underground Hospitals nor that most of the establishments were built by Slave workers and nothing about the concentration camp that was in Alderney that housed the slaves.
Outstanding Observations on an Extremely Difficult Situation Ofcourse as a US Army Veteran and British Allie I tend to hold to an Ancestral British American Bias but the Wonderful Advantage of True Historical Investigation and Reporting Is that We as Gods Creation Might, If We Use This Perspective Not Re Peat Our Former Errors ......................................................
To those complaining that this documentary doesn't include Jersey, Dan Snow doesn't represent Jersey. He is an ambassador for the bailiwick of Guernsey. Get your own, though John Nettles has been a good ambassador for Jersey, though also does great war documentaries for the other islands as well. Met him while he was on sark for the operation basalt commemorations a few years ago.
@ 13:00 So much War Material in Caves? 🤔. That's for Europe in War. OBVIOUSLY he didn't mention the Vast array of Japanese War Equipment, deeply hidden in Giant Caves, READY and Waiting for Americans to Invade Japan - thankfully none of it used, otherwise would've been a blood bath for both sides!
My whole family is from Guernsey. When my grandpa was young, he and his mother and siblings had to evacuate because of WW2. He stayed in England but unfortunately his mother came down with Tuberculosis. He says his mother had to stay in a shed in the garden when she came down with it and he said that every morning he would wave at her through the window. She died while still in England. Even today going down the beaches you see their bunkers and buildings. It is a fascinating place and was the only place in Britain where three Jews were taken hostage. I am glad it is getting the recognition it deserves. Oh also castle Cornet has really good rock candy in the gift shop in case you ever go.
For the same reason there was such a small number of defendants at Nuremberg, the USSR posed such a great threat to Western Europe the Allies needed to quickly stabilize Germany. A large number of lengthy trials would have been seen as “victors justice”and alienated the average German.
Best regards from Germany. May this Island find peace for ever. I have been to Jersey in the 90's as a kid. We were staying at a very nice local familys' house with kids at my age. Must have been 12 or 13 and speaking the best English in my family. We played football, tennis and I learned the cricket rules. My grandfather was 16 when he was forced into the wehrmacht. Wounded an traumatized as a POW. He was beaten up many times by British guards. Never hated the British and made a visit to London in his 70s. It makes me keep my faith in humanism to see people forgive and make their peace. Thanks Canal Island people.
The woman was in love...definitely not a collaborator OK! And don't mention the 16,000 slaves laborers who mostly died...
40 slaves per doodle bug when they were making them a very sad statistic ,although they never made them on Guernesy ..lol
Sorry, but fraternization is collaboration. There is no distinction.
Slave labourers who faltered were summarily despatched and added to the concrete in the Channel Islands constructions.
@@suzyqualcast6269 You got a cite for this? Or is this just from your imagination?
I was born in African Libya durring the occupation by Rommels Afrika Corps ,i was too young to put together any real memorys but i do have small memorys of German troops helping my mother harvest our crops,through storys my mother told us we know that while we were living under German control was the best life a christian family could ever have in islamic Libya ,i dont have any memorys as a child of having fun or being able to openly play outside after the war ended because the purge of Christians began immediately following the war & we lived in terror .
Bless you for telling us your story! I can't imagine living like that; in constant terror after a bloody war. May you meet only the best of people! ^^
I’m genuinely saddened to read some of the memories no one should every endure. Especially a Child. Your mom seemed Lovely. I’m happy you are able to speak on your actually memories. I wondered how did this awful tragic /situation effect you as an adult? Rather good or bad. I truly pray you where able to have a happy life. Be Great to All here🙏🏽
Next time in tunnels or caves bring something more than a penlight. We cannot make out anything with the narrow beam zigging and zagging, momentarily pausing.
Matthew Molina So true! I’m sure they could afford a real light.
We use to get into the Rouge Rue tunnel as kids in the early 1970s. There was a lot more stuff in there then and in much better condition.
I have spent a few weeks in total on all the Chanel islands investigating. Fascinating and beautiful islands. However the makers of this program should be ashamed of themselves for not even mentioning the 12000 slave workers who built the fortification and every thing else!! They where mostly Russians and Jews. There are mass graves all over the place for them. Did they have a jolly and romantic time during the occupation of the islands? I doubt it. One of your interviewees even referred to starving slaves breaking into her house to steal food. How is it possible to call this a historical program on the wartime buildings etc when you neglect to deal with the appealing human suffering of the slave workers who built everything!!! Very very poor show.
I spent my childhood playing in these tunnels. Happy days. 70 s
Lucky you! I'm 52 and want to play in these tunnels now!
Glad for the fact sir. It was no longer used as a fort but a play tunnel.( also glad to learn a part of history I never knew of.)
Its a shame most are blocked up these days..
Great story. Love listing to the older people
I love hearing the older residents stories! Great documentary!!
Fantastic program. It is a crime to leave all of that history rotting away at the bottom of the quarry in Alderney. Bring it up and put it on show for future generations to see.
Love these stories told by the people who actually lived through it. Excellent!
@Logic genius I don't know if you are "Up on" the background to the "Falkland Crisis" Early in 1982 Margaret Thatcher rescinded the British Citizenship of the people of: The Falklands, Tristan da Chuna, St Helena, and South Georgia. Sending all the wrong messages to the Argentine Junta. The same way the USA sucked Iraq into the first gulf war. Sadaam Hussain asked the USA ambassador re: Kuwait the reply was: "The USA has no interests in Kuwait"
@@gordonpeden6234 she caused trouble for sure … what a thing to do , rescind citizenship to a very small group of people, how on earth was that going to save any money ? Especially in light of present world emigration…..
I found this very informative. I would enjoy additional documentaries covering more of the same subject, especially with interviews of decendents and photographs of the time.
Anything I can help you with plz let me no .I live in Guernsey .perhaps a picture or something. Peace
Superbly done documentary ! thanks to those involved.
Not really sure how I got here, but glad I did. Well done! At least something good from Covid-19 👍🏻
Riveting documentary, I didn’t realise I was so interested in history like this. Excellent 👌
History is fascinating
Interesting video with some great content, unfortunately the use of the still at 26 minutes from the 80s TV show Enemy At The Door to illustrate German troops might have been a mistake
I very much enjoyed this documentary, but I do see an issue. The picture presented at about 26:30 of German officers is from a mini-series from 1978 called, "Enemy at the Door." The mini-series is about the occupation, and it is set, mostly, in Guernsey.
Underneath the uniform, after all, we are all human. Capable of the best and the worst... Excelent Work. I would like to visit Guernsey because of this story.
It h as the look of a location in Mit Schirme Charme und Melone (The Avengers). Expect to see John Steed in the pub.
Excellent programme.
Great look at an interesting part of the history of WW2.
A great glimpse into an extraordinary time in history. I hope we get to see more.
Cheers from Australia!
thank you for providing us this wonderful videos if though the views aren't good ....we appreciate it.... thank you.
Thanks for posting such an interesting video. Thanks also to UA-cam, for trying to force me to watch the same crappy commercials repeatedly every six minutes.
That's what ad block is for
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5 minutes?? Nah brah just drag that lil red ball to the end and back. No ads.
@ Jim if I may be so bold. Download Firefox browser, in settings download the addon AdBlocker, change the settings in the addon to exclude all tracking and ads......... hay presto no more adverts................its the best thing
Or you can pay ten bucks a month and get a UA-cam Google account you see no ads unless the creators embeds them in their videos and you also get other benefits and UA-cam music also. When you get something for free you have to expect to pay for it one way or another I prefer cash then being driven insane by all those stupid ads lol.
How about interviewing Germans that returned to their girlfriends after the war, or their descendants ?.
Plenty of documentaries on stuff like that
@@ptrekboxbreaks5198 Wo?
@@therealkreationsdbd what?
Its probably about 50 years too late to get good information on that. Living witnesses are kinda scarce now.
@@ptrekboxbreaks5198 Was? What . Wo means where.
Nice to know my place of birth is appreciated like this. Living here all one’s life you get used to looking at the bunkers and the fortifications but watching this really brings interest back to this small islands history.
Yes one seeing it all ones life You tend to not realize the importance. I would be exploring myself but, that is just me!!! 😂😂😂😎 Bless you and yours this New Year!!! 🙏❤🇺🇸😊
WoW, I never knew anything of this place as they have hidden it for some reasons...... there is nothing wrong w/ a
person having Pride for their Nation but the globalist elites of this world have tried to remove that sentiment from
all of us out of fear that it might unite the people? Lately I've been glad to see people of the UK waving their Flags
around & you lived w/ the good/bad of this place so you deserve to be heard in both your pride or disdain for any
thing that happened way back then. This is an amazing piece of video..... but why has this not been told? Do you
know why it might be hidden from history or was it so small that they forgot? I think they didn't want this story
to come out..... do you know? peace & God Bless.
@@diggydice9041 There have been hundreds if not thousands of documentaries on this subject. What are you on about?
The hip hop producer Mura Masa is from Guernsey as well
@@diggydice9041 who doesnt want this story out? There's no reason to hide this history
Wow, How amazing, will there be a follow up regarding the military archaeology in that bay ? unbelievable to see just a small part. Will anyone finance pulling the hardware out of the sea for prosperity ?
Hey this is the guy that advertise History Channel. He says it's like the Netflix of History. Gosh I see that advertisement at least six times a day on UA-cam. It's finally nice to see this guy actually get it one video for himself. He always says it's the Netflix of History. This gentleman advertises the history Network but I never see him do any history documentaries.
Plenty in Jersey also.. These fortifications it is said we're built by prisoners of war.. Russians, Poles, Slovaks amonst others.. It was also said many ended up as part of these fortifications...
This was rather excellent. Wouldn't mind living there, actually.
I'd probably mind, but its still pretty cool and pretty. Its kind of tainted now though...
wonderful place
I grew up on Jersey. Bad place to be poor in the 70s
Louis Day yes louis
Awesome island if you can get off it!
I played as a child in the bunkers and military hospital in Jersey. Very large in scale, some kids did some digging round and rode their bikes home wearing German helmets and webbing. For a while there was a trade with the island's antique dealers....they were common enough to be used as boat bailers...this was in the 60's
This is a fascinating documentary. The wartime stories of peoples lives, the scale of the fortifications. Also the significance and opportunities of what was discarded in the quarry. Documentaries like these really deserve more airtime than the reconstituted cr@p they usually put on TV.
Alderney why are the residents ignorant about the concentration camps and refuse to talk about that part of history i find it disturbing.
just a foot note: Treue ist das Mark der Ehre - NOT: loyalty is the *mark* of honour, but ...is the *marrow* of honour.
Danke.
AS WHAT?? DYSTAIN
DYSTAINFULLY OF THE SAME
Thanks for that it makes a huge difference, nuanced and important.
Fascinating. Having visited Guernsey I fully appreciate Dan's interest in the subject.
Can you tell me/us why the bunker(s) were filled with 80 tons of bricks etc in the 1980's with yet to be discovered and removed coins and various other items. That was a large project. Who created it, payed for it and why?
that mister running the museum is such a lovley person, nowonder the garrison felt good on that island if it's inhabitants are all like him..
What every you say massy…. 😂😂 I had to say it
Dude! You need to spring for a bigger flashlight. lol
I lived on Sark for a while and then moved to Guernsey fpr a couple of years, such beautiful islands and the people are fantastic , big up Mrs Peree hows little Sark and the Silver mine....
Failing to mention and discuss the thousands of forced labor slaves doing the defensive installation constructions on minimum food rations seven days a week till death.
Alderney also played host to concentration camps. It’s still controversial what happened there
Not just concentration camps. My family is from there and they tell shocking stories on their return
@@prechagirl I was wondering about that. Although not shocked it wasn't brought up.
What scares me is that people today could care less about the Camps; I am 73; a Vietnam veteran; and I still pray for the souls in those camps...
YouDontKnowMe - No, but I do know that you're a IDIOT Critical of that Vietnam Veteran.
Most likely a TROLL you are!
Personally I found the attempt throughout this film to empathize with the III Reich's occupying forces & present their presence as some kind of student exchange programme, & create a sentimental picture of an island idyll of their presence, whilst making no mention of the Todt slaves who built the Atlantic Wall fortifications on the island, rather unsettling.
There's a delightful series called Island at War about the occupation. And of course Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ❤
26:29 Wow it's Michael Sheard! Unbelievable time traveller extraordinaire.
And Alfred Burke !-Fancy that
16,000 slave labourers not worth a mention?
No
would it be because that it did not happen?
German records show that in May 1943 there was a total of 16,000 foreign workers in Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney. In November 1943 numbers had fallen to 8,959 and by July 1944 only 817 remained.
@El Comedy Rogue The Germans.
Exactly, and the woman was in love...definitely not a collaborator …...I guess this was made before Brexit...and part of the anti brexit nonsense.....
The large spider running across the wall at 30:20 gave me a bit of a scare - I had to rewind it to see what it was :)
Excellent Excellent Excellent documentary 🇩🇪🇬🇧👍 love history, love discovery, love passing down the past. Learning from history. Dan, on your dive, didn't you find something small like a pistol, rifle, a shell for your efforts? Could you keep a trinket or would it be property of the island and a museum?
Is there a follow up story, I hope?
✌️🇺🇲
Felt like I was experiencing a part of history that was secret and only a chosen few know about.
Watching + learning
from NSW Australia
Excellent video and true history lesson!
The boat in the opening minutes is named “Te Aroha” which means “The Love” in New Zealand Maori 💚👌 Chur NZ
It's actually pronounced "Sahan Dihego" which means the vagina of a wale
@Ash you've never seen anchorman?
Nice! I thing that interests me about New Zealand is the Hacca, in rugby. I don't really like the Hacca, but I read about the history of it and I found it quite interesting. I don't think New Zealand ever really gets mentioned but I think if someone did do research on it I think it would be quite interesting. I think that's what I don't like, you learn lots about Britain and the history, but you never learn about commonwealth countries, or other countries in general. I think it's a shame.
@Ash ah sorry!
Nz up!!!
had a really nice time with a local girl on top of that gun emplacement at 31:39 in the 1970's, happy memories,
PAUL HAMMERSLEY - Did you use your "gun" with her? 😄
Dad?
@Bdbdbf Dvdjdjd Small pp
How much did you pay for her gun?
Well, so long as she adjusted your gun emplacement first.
I live in Guernsey and yes it's lovely place to stay with a vast amount of history
Na Escócia em 1976, fiz parceria com um alemão, Wilhelm, com um barco de pesca antigo que eu restaurei. Durante WW2 ele estava parte da guarnição nessas ilhas.
Como muitos outros alemães nas ilhas, ele estava um pacifista e quando chamado para enlistar no começo da guerra, ele recusou.
Ameaçado com morte, ele não pudesse mais resistir. Mas os Nazis sabiam que essas pessoas pacifistas não vão a luta, mas ainda pudessem ser úteis. Assim o caráter desses soldados estava bem diferente. Ele mesmo estava uma pessoa muito doce.
No fim da guerra quando as ilhas estavam bloqueadas, ele quase morreu de fome e ficou surdo permanentemente. Ele assertou que preferia ser cego que surdo. Música estava muito importante na vida dele antes.
Foi preso na Escócia mas encontrou uma escocesa e quando liberado, casou e ficou lá. Eu ainda tenho saudades dele.
You have to go in to a dark area knowingly, and the best flashlight you can muster is a mini? Not very professional. FYI
Very interesting indeed. I have been to Guernsey on a few occasions, but didn't realise how prolific the Germans were in relation to hardware and fortresses. Thank you for the upload.
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This was a nice episode. Great stories. Also very nice to see how they restored these remarkable island fortifications and complex bunkers. Wish more people and historians could come together and restore more bunkers all over Europe for all generations to see. Open them up clean them and fix them. History should not roth away or be buried and forgotten.
I agree. I will never completely understand why so much WW2 history was to be buried away. Sure, at the time it could have been traumatizing, but this is one of the biggest events in human civilization ever.
Anybody instantly related to Harry from the sidemen???
Victor Hugo moved here too. I think it's where he finished Les Miserables.
@@darrenfusellier4145 oh really I didn't know that. I might have to visit sometime. That sounds really interesting thanks.
Dan that was an excellent presentation. I agree the islands are fascinating. As a private pilot during the 1980's and 90's I visited several times and would liked to have retired there - except you need a lot of capital to do so. Your passion for history is infectious. Thanks Phil Robinson.
Lovely stuff! Thank you, thank you!
some body should start saving the german equipment in the whater .realy soon to.
It is no mystery why the Islands remained in German hands until the final surrender. Winston Churchill said ` I will not sacrifice one single Aliied life to liberate that nest of collaborators` .
Just wow, I really enjoyed this documentary
Ruined by snow and his unrevised ideas of WW2 and its events.
I just can NOT watch the show biz clown hosting this. It's too much. He really rubs me "the wrong way."
Love the history❤
Was pleased to find this after seeing your shorter film on History Hit. So very interesting. Thank you!
I'm surprised Guernsey is British considering it's right off the French coast.
Remember that France and England were once the same nation. After the English lost their continental territories the English retained the islands under the treaty of Paris in 1259.
Britain and the Channel Islands were French. Cornwall language is closely related to French. I believe there was a place in Asia that was known for travelling slowly took over the southwest. Which lead to pirates. Another place in Asia took over the rest of Britain. But the countries weren't always in the current position. So Europe was most likely where Asia is now, and Asia where Europe is now. African also a travelling country, hence lots of places were dominated by Africans. Europe then took over.
U so ppl r so ignorant in history of their own as queen Elizabeth title is queen of Normandy too
omer hafeez The Queen of England is actually Notre Duc, here in the Channel Islands. This dates back to when William, Duke of Normandy became King of England after defeating King Harold at the battle of Hastings in 1066. The Channel Islands were part of the Duchy of Normandy and remained so until King John lost Normandy to France. After which the Channel Islands maintained their allegiance to the English monarchy, despite numerous attempts by the French to retake the Islands. The Channel Islands have a long and fascinating history which is well worth reading. Jersey was instrumental during the English Civil War and remained loyal to the monarchy and sheltered Charles the 2nd prior to him returning to England to restore the monarchy after Oliver Cromwell’s defeat.
We invaded England in 1066
Yet another "documentary" with a "celebrity" standing in front of the camera way too much.
Attenborrough was never in front of the camera as much is this clown. But it appeals to the masses, that is why they do it. Selling to the lowest common denominator. Enjoy it. Jonnie.
"But it appeals to the masses, that is why they do it. Selling to the lowest common denominator. Enjoy it. Jonnie."
"But it appeals to the masses, that is why they do it. Selling to the lowest common denominator. Enjoy it. Jonnie."
I agree with your synopsis of modern British 'documentaries'. Basically some academic being filmed trotting around on a field trip with an occasional photo. Every ten minutes you get a basic concept. It is filling up tv hours.
Indeed - and this where pioneering individuals like Mark Felton come in and provide in a week a product better than an entire TV channel can achieve in a month!
Get yourself a proper large and powerful flashlight for investigating dark tunnels.
My step dad recalls playing in all the tunnels as a kid. Late 70s so I think they had free run of the whole place!
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Its interesting that the tanks the curator said were found in the quarry, FT17, were old French ones the Germans had commandeered. Like the recycled gun. They evidently gave the islands less than frontline status.
The French happily worked with the Germans and especially the Gestapo rounding up the Jews for them the Vichy government
Interesting film, but although in the begining it's mentioned that the Germans, overall were kind to the local population, and although a lot is mentioned about the under ground tunnels, nothing is mentioned about the suffering of the Russian prisoners of war, who were used as force labour, starved to death and when they died, they were just thrown into those big concrete walls.
Sorry, but this film is only about memorabilia without mentioning nothing about the human suffering that is caused by war.
They were not starved to death because you can't be a weak person to work with all this concrete and iron. And I doubt the dead ones were put in the concrete because that would not be very strong walls. These are just stories. My father had to do force labour in a tank factory near Berlin and he said they were well fed, better than his family that lived in Belgium. And they had one day off in the week (don't know about Russian POW though).
In this case: not until Churchill decided to let the occupiers AND his own people starve to death.
This is amazing. Thank you for doing a documentary on Guernsey. It's a part of my life through family. Just awesome to see it's fascinating WW2 history represented.
My boss Herr Ernst Woderer at Gasthof Schwartzer Adler Hotel Streitberg ,Bavaria in the 1970,s was a young German soldier whose first posting was to these isles in 1940-he was a Sudeten German born 1922 as Germany annexed it in the late 1930,s.
In 1945 he was captured when the nazis surrendered and taken prisoner to Scotland-he was repatriated in 1948 but complained he was booted out of the lorry at Aachen,700 miles from his home in Munich !
NOTE TO TIMELINE PRODUCTION STAFF AND PRESENTER: The next time you venture into a dark tunnel and want to show us the contents, stuff the itty-bitty penlight and throw some REAL light onto the specimens. You wasted that part of the presentation that some of us would liked to see. We know what the talking head with the penlight looks like. Shine a light on the subject of the video. It boggles the mind that you even need to be reminded of this.
But according to another documentary the Commando order was issued due to "the great raid" of the french port
and what does that have to do with this occupation and the civillians? the commando order was to execute British captured Commandos, it had nothing to do with civilian population
@@massimomax3215 guernsey was 1st commando raid, the st nazaire raid was the one that caused the order
Come to Jersey and see the restoration of many bunkers, MP2s etc etc
ironically, the Channel Islands remained occupied until after the war. a successful Kriegsmarine raid was even conducted on a Normandy costal installation in 1945 from the islands.
This documentary is wonderful, thank you for putting this together and making it available...I've learned so much.
Greetings and best wishes to the people of Guernsey! We Germans will return...as tourists of course.
He's literally inside hitlers fortress yet cant seem to believe what he is seeing 56 times?
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Saw a just post war photo once, a small cove had hundreds of German steel helmets thrown In, at depth, as you could clearly see the lids at the top of the pile, above the water. Maybe it was this quarry, just imagine!!
I don't know why so many documentaries leave this part of the WW2 history out, when they had control of the channel islands.
As someone born in Guernsey I agree, we often get left out of the story.
Awesome just Awesome mister Snow I'm a Snow any relation hmmm don't know take care Brother
“They were just human beings” .... hmmm, sympathizer much? This museum curator loves sucking the boots left behind
Why not interview the german veterans ?
The woman talking about throwing things at the Germans was awesome😂
Great programe but there was no talk about the German underground Hospitals nor that most of the establishments were built by Slave workers and nothing about the concentration camp that was in Alderney that housed the slaves.
There underground with a camera crew and only a torch. The viewers mostly see Dan and little else. A real pity. It's not about you, Dan.
Outstanding Observations on an Extremely Difficult Situation Ofcourse as a US Army Veteran and British Allie I tend to hold to an Ancestral British American Bias but the Wonderful Advantage of True Historical Investigation and Reporting Is that We as Gods Creation Might, If We Use This Perspective Not Re Peat Our Former Errors ......................................................
The Germans never invaded Britain..
They are not part of the British isles either.
The Channel islands are a Crown Dependancy. .
To those complaining that this documentary doesn't include Jersey, Dan Snow doesn't represent Jersey. He is an ambassador for the bailiwick of Guernsey. Get your own, though John Nettles has been a good ambassador for Jersey, though also does great war documentaries for the other islands as well. Met him while he was on sark for the operation basalt commemorations a few years ago.
Just like how the U.S. pushed helicopters off the flight decks of the carriers following the evacuation of Saigon in 1975.
Yep. There is so much waste involved in warfare. Truly the dumbest of all human endeavors.
@@overbeb As the late George Patrick Dennis Carlin said: "If It Requires A Uniform, It Is A Useless Endeavor"
Nate Dorney - READ UP ON THE REAL REASON WHY!
Was to make room for the next incoming Copters - was simply NO MORE ROOM!
Have you seen the movie " devil's rock"? Explanation for everything there..lol
@ 13:00 So much War Material in Caves? 🤔. That's for Europe in War.
OBVIOUSLY he didn't mention the Vast array of Japanese War Equipment, deeply hidden in Giant Caves, READY and Waiting for Americans to Invade Japan - thankfully none of it used, otherwise would've been a blood bath for both sides!
No wonder w2s loves dark humor.
Love Snow´s thoughtful reflections
Hate Dan Snow! his voice and manner are utterly obnoxious!
Its even worse ,when he says the same thing advertising his channel. Just like Netflix.. it makes me reach for the volume switch 🤣
@@hootsmon4723 I soooooo agree! I refuse to watch ANYTHING with him starring!!! I can watch the same things without him by a little searching!
@@phoenixrising573 try mark feltons channel.. if you enjoy learning about the second world war. Believe me its excellent with the different subjects .
@@hootsmon4723 I'll do that - THANKS!!
That's the best flashlight you could get? I have a better one in the glovebox of my car.
My whole family is from Guernsey. When my grandpa was young, he and his mother and siblings had to evacuate because of WW2. He stayed in England but unfortunately his mother came down with Tuberculosis. He says his mother had to stay in a shed in the garden when she came down with it and he said that every morning he would wave at her through the window. She died while still in England. Even today going down the beaches you see their bunkers and buildings. It is a fascinating place and was the only place in Britain where three Jews were taken hostage. I am glad it is getting the recognition it deserves. Oh also castle Cornet has really good rock candy in the gift shop in case you ever go.
Marianne Burden you can get it cheaper from a couple shops in the arcade
Really good one this. But "slave workers?!", how has that not come up a lot more in all this talk of friendly german soldiers?
For the same reason there was such a small number of defendants at Nuremberg, the USSR posed such a great threat to Western Europe the Allies needed to quickly stabilize Germany. A large number of lengthy trials would have been seen as “victors justice”and alienated the average German.
Yeah Guernsey! 🇬🇬