Jersey Occupation Trail

German forces and slave labourers constructed an inordinate amount of fortifications, out of proportion to the Islands’ strategic value. Their remains are a remarkable window to the past.

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Occupation to Liberation

The Island of Jersey today bears many scars from Germany’s five-year military occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II. Hitler demanded the Islands be turned into ‘impregnable fortresses'.
The Occupation of Jersey (1940 - 1945)

The Occupation of Jersey (1940 - 1945)

The German Occupation of Jersey began two weeks after the British government had...
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The Liberation of Jersey (May 9th 1945)

The Liberation of Jersey (May 9th 1945)

The Island of Jersey was liberated on May 9th 1945 - this is re-enacted every ye...
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'Resistance' and 'Liberation'

'Resistance' and 'Liberation'

In 2010, to mark the 65th anniversary of the island’s liberation, Jersey War Tun...
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Liberation Day 2014

Liberation Day 2014

On May 9th every year Jersey celebrates the anniversary of the Liberation of the...
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Living with the Enemy

Living with the Enemy

The story of what really happened in the only part of the British Isles to be oc...
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Channel Islands Occupation Society

Channel Islands Occupation Society

The Channel Islands Occupation Society opens fortifications constructed by the G...
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Occupation Trail

Occupation Trail

The Island of Jersey today bears many scars from Germany’s five-year military oc...
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Occupation Tapestry

Occupation Tapestry

The Occupation Tapestry is probably the greatest community project ever undertak...
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Memorial Sites

Memorial Sites

Details of the island's memorial sites that remember the victims of the occupati...
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Allied War Cemetery

Allied War Cemetery

The establishment of the Allied War Cemetery in the Howard Davis Park came about...
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Sources of Information

Sources of Information

Want to find out more? There is a plethora of online resources, organisations an...
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Normandy Landing Beaches

Normandy Landing Beaches

The site of the allied invasion of northwest Europe in 1944, or Normandy Landing...
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Colleville-sur-Mer

Colleville-sur-Mer

The heaviest casualties of D-Day were incurred at Omaha and the American cemeter...
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John Nettles' Jewels and Jackboots

John Nettles' Jewels and Jackboots

John Nettles OBE stimulates impassioned debate with his book on the German Occup...
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Underground Command Bunker

Underground Command Bunker

Built between March 1943 and April 1944 by the German Navy and extending to a de...
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Sending German letters home

Sending German letters home

In December 1941 the people of Jersey were facing their second Christmas of the ...
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