Germans marching through town in 1940. British marching through all of Germany in 1945. Meaning it ain't who marches first, it's who marches last that counts.
Due to the Covid 19, we will not this 75th anniversary be having the planned arrangements. however those like myself who where here in 1945. do not forget.May 9th.
The Queen's Mother's visit to Guernsey in 1975, I was working at the Royal Hotel and we can see her brief appearance at the Royal balcony in company of the former Governor and the Bailiff of Guernsey.
The German 319th Infantry as stationed there the whole war and was one of the largest . Tanks and aircraft wee stationed there also. The island grew tomatoes and as supplies were cut off they eat nothing but. Major Hider was a village commander and I bought his wartime portrait at a second hand store in California. Has it for years until I saw a documentary about the island and heard about him. Made arrangements to return the oil painting back to the islands museum and did.
An interesting point: at then 3'50" mark, when the narrator says that "for the doctor in charge there were all the comforts of home" we're shown a room, with a photograph on a desk. Then we see it close-up. It's a portrait photograph of Sophie Scholl, one of the student leaders of the White Rose resistance movement in Germany. She was arrested, condemned to death, and executed by guillotine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scholl
This came up on my feed just now (3rd May 2019), and I noticed that too and commented above. I've only just started to scroll down the comments. I'm glad that you noticed her too, as she, and her brother Hans, were true anti-Nazi heroes. As for the inclusion of her photograph here, as I said in my own comment above, " I imagine that the people running the museum used a stock-photograph of a German woman when they mocked-up the Doctor's quarters, without realising who the person in the photograph was." As time passes, the truths in our history slowly emerge, and I imagine that in the late 70s even fewer people, especially in the UK, knew who she was (I know that in Germany people are rightly proud of her, and what she stood for, but here in the UK she's virtually unknown... hence the comment from an idiot like Nozecone).
And German propoganda made a lot of it. One infamous photo is of children listening to a German military band in Howard Davis Park. After one pice the bandmaster asked the children 'Who want's a sweet?' The reaction, naturally enough every arm shot up. The picture was published as 'English Children acknowledge the Furher'.
I've made a thread on this subject at the link below, it's picture-heavy depending on your connection 🙂 🍻 www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1202171/pg1
This ITV channel TV program from the 70s is also now part of history especially seeing the British Airways Vickers Viscount brings back memories of my first flight at the age of nine to the Isle of Man in a Cambrian Airways Viscount from Speke now John Lennon Airport Liverpool.
My first visit was in 1963, via Herne Airport, near Bournemouth, in a very old fashioned 9 seater bi plane. Then again in 1970, from a Gloucestershire Airport, --the name deserts me. It felt adventurous back then, and very noisey
Authentic taxi driver statement in 1997 just after I had first landed in Guernsey coming from Dinard, : "Germans are welcomed in the island.... As tourists" .!
Us channel islanders we are a special breed . I’m a Guernsey man born and bread . No one today would know what it’s like to have their freedom take away . A very good friend of my family whom like part of mine stayed . She said a person told the English forces we’ve waited so long . We are so glad you’ve come
Which one? You must be very proud.... I didnt even know about these islands...ive been net surfing.....and came across this video. Very interesting. I would have put an end to the Germans walking around like they're still in charge!!
When looking at this document, we May have the feeling that here, on the islands , is the highest number of swatiskas our our planet ! Oh, Just before 4 minutes, a photo from young Sophie Scholl, the resistant in Munich Who was to pay with her life her opposition to the party ... !! To realise that German soldiers stayed here til one year After 1944 is also stunning.
Amazing to see just the quality of the older footage to what we have now! Or maybe the world was dull and gloomy like this and it's evolving to HD and clearer pixels!.oh wait wrong video that's them Who think we live in a simulation lol
The islands were indefensible, it would have condemned 1,000’s of servicemen to death or imprisonment when it seemed they were desperately required on the mainland to defend the (at the time) imminent German invasion of Britain, Operation Seelowe. It also saved the lives of civilians who would have been caught up in the battles.
@@9traktor they were not treated fair. The occupation was a grim time. And also all civilians were given the option to seek refuge on mainland U.K., it just many of them (mostly farmers) had to maintain their lively hood or they would have had no island to come back to
Because that would have resulted in the heavy bombing of the Channel Islands, civilians and servicemen would have been slaughtered, St. Helier would have been destroyed.
it has baffled me for years why the marshaling of the allied armada and its crossing on June 6 were so missed by these forward vantage points that the Nazi had.
The (British) Channel Islands are much closer to France than England and on the far side of the Cherbourg Peninsula from the Normandy landings thus there was nothing to see. The nearness to France is also the main reason why Britain abandoned them in the first place; could not be defended. Rejoice for your bafflement is ended; looking at a *map* wouldn't hurt you either.
5:10 "...for five years in their futile attempt to subjugate the spirits of the people. For Vice-admiral Hufmeyer, the military commander, the acceptance of defeat, maintaining that typical arrogance which demands 'right-of-way'. ....[as he gently nudges an oblivious British naval captain who is blocking his path off the island]." ....The spirit of EVERY Brit on the island is give way to Vice-Admiral Hufmeyer! "Ja, ja! ....Do you vant me off ziis island or not?!?"
Here's why Vice-Admiral Friedrich Hüffmeier is deserving of respect: ruclips.net/video/KmZSd6AxNqA/видео.html . (The Granville Raid of March 9th, 1945)
@@MrJm323 So ... he planned and ordered a successful raid - that's what he gets the bucks for, isn't it? I don't see anything in that video that indicates why he deserves any more respect than any other soldier.
@@nozecone ....I do. Interesting, you think the Kriegsmarine was going to dock his pay if he didn't plan the raid (or if it failed)? .....Huh. I don't think that's how it works. On the other hand, he could have called the Royal Navy on the wireless and asked them to accept his command's surrender soon after D-Day or after the fall of Paris. ....And, you figure it was because of his fantastic pay as a flag-grade officer in the Kriegsmarine that made him decide to stick it out. ...Fascinating.
@@MrJm323 No, I didn't say that's why he did it. From what you say, it sounds like he was just another misguided, arrogant fool who put no value on human life. Respect.
During the period of this Anniversary the Queen Mother is known to have been in discussion with senior military officers and MI5, the idea of staging a coup against the current Labour government and installing Lord Mountbatten as defacto dictator. So not really opposed to fascists just non English fascists.
What was the alternative, be shipped off to a concentration camp in Europe, leaving his family to fend for themselves? Come on, you weren't there, none of us can say with absolute certainty how we would or wouldn't act in that situation, they just wanted to survive.
Germans marching through town in 1940. British marching through all of Germany in 1945. Meaning it ain't who marches first, it's who marches last that counts.
Due to the Covid 19, we will not this 75th anniversary be having the planned arrangements. however those like myself who where here in 1945. do not forget.May 9th.
were you really there
@@chandrachud Yes I was there during the occupation of Jersey, I was 10 years old when the War finished, it lasted 5 years.
@@margaretjehan8085 that's pretty cool. You've seen a great deal haven't you.
@@margaretjehan8085 happy you made it through that 😁❤
i love going to the under ground base on jersey and seeing all the fortifications
British Spitfires didn't come at night to neutralise the Stukas, probably because of the civilians.
The Queen's Mother's visit to Guernsey in 1975, I was working at the Royal Hotel and we can see her brief appearance at the Royal balcony in company of the former Governor and the Bailiff of Guernsey.
Many thousands of guernsey and jersey men served with the royal hampshire regiment contributing to the war effort
Be exacy it was just the Hampshire regiment at the time. Don't forget the other services as well Mon V
The German 319th Infantry as stationed there the whole war and was one of the largest . Tanks and aircraft wee stationed there also. The island grew tomatoes and as supplies were cut off they eat nothing but. Major Hider was a village commander and I bought his wartime portrait at a second hand store in California. Has it for years until I saw a documentary about the island and heard about him. Made arrangements to return the oil painting back to the islands museum and did.
An interesting point: at then 3'50" mark, when the narrator says that "for the doctor in charge there were all the comforts of home" we're shown a room, with a photograph on a desk. Then we see it close-up.
It's a portrait photograph of Sophie Scholl, one of the student leaders of the White Rose resistance movement in Germany. She was arrested, condemned to death, and executed by guillotine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scholl
So why would the doctor have her photo on his desk?
British propaganda - rather clumsy effort.
@@ramblinralph7609 Not like the oh-so-slick Nazi propaganda. Btw: the war's over - your side lost - get over it.
This came up on my feed just now (3rd May 2019), and I noticed that too and commented above. I've only just started to scroll down the comments. I'm glad that you noticed her too, as she, and her brother Hans, were true anti-Nazi heroes. As for the inclusion of her photograph here, as I said in my own comment above, " I imagine that the people running the museum used a stock-photograph of a German woman when they mocked-up the Doctor's quarters, without realising who the person in the photograph was." As time passes, the truths in our history slowly emerge, and I imagine that in the late 70s even fewer people, especially in the UK, knew who she was (I know that in Germany people are rightly proud of her, and what she stood for, but here in the UK she's virtually unknown... hence the comment from an idiot like Nozecone).
@@stevensteptoe682 Huh?? What are you talking about?
@@stevensteptoe682 I think you're getting the order and place of the comments and replies mixed up, or something. Apology accepted.
It's weird to see the German troops marching past English signs and shops
And German propoganda made a lot of it. One infamous photo is of children listening to a German military band in Howard Davis Park. After one pice the bandmaster asked the children 'Who want's a sweet?' The reaction, naturally enough every arm shot up. The picture was published as 'English Children acknowledge the Furher'.
The English should embrace the friend Germans
51WCDodge Sounds like english propaganda.
I've made a thread on this subject at the link below, it's picture-heavy depending on your connection 🙂 🍻
www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1202171/pg1
PS, just scroll down past the history lesson for the pictures, lol 👍
3:51 I'm pretty sure the commander of the German occupation did not have a picture of Sophie Scholl in his quarters.
Yeah, I noticed that too!
Weird
This ITV channel TV program from the 70s is also now part of history especially seeing the British Airways Vickers Viscount brings back memories of my first flight at the age of nine to the Isle of Man in a Cambrian Airways Viscount from Speke now John Lennon Airport Liverpool.
My first visit was in 1963, via Herne Airport, near Bournemouth, in a very old fashioned 9 seater bi plane. Then again in 1970, from a Gloucestershire Airport, --the name deserts me. It felt adventurous back then, and very noisey
Look no further than the Channel Islands to know what Britain would have become if Operation Sea Lion had succeeded.
Authentic taxi driver statement in 1997 just after I had first landed in Guernsey coming from Dinard, : "Germans are welcomed in the island.... As tourists" .!
Us channel islanders we are a special breed . I’m a Guernsey man born and bread . No one today would know what it’s like to have their freedom take away . A very good friend of my family whom like part of mine stayed . She said a person told the English forces we’ve waited so long . We are so glad you’ve come
"born and bred" ...unless you are a loaf
@@SunofYork Ah no, a Donkey. 'A😄
English forces.????
It took so long for the islands to all be liberated that sark was liberated the day after
I thought you were going to say weeks after.
Thats my father 6:39 w/op 24 squadron
Which one? You must be very proud....
I didnt even know about these islands...ive been net surfing.....and came across this video. Very interesting.
I would have put an end to the Germans walking around like they're still in charge!!
Where did supplies of food and essentials come from during the period 6th June 1944 to 9th May 1945?
So the Red Cross supplied a great deal via a ship called the SS Vega but I believe the British Government also supplied food and medical aid too
Why the photo of Sophie Scholl at 3.54 ?
I came here to comment the same thing, my best guess is that it was put there after it was turned into a museum.
A forgotten part of WW2 history.
Such mindless wars are no more welcome by modern world and should be avoided at all costs We don't want any more wars
Such a relief for all those patient islanders. Should have had some jerrybags lined up in stocks for inspection.
When looking at this document, we May have the feeling that here, on the islands , is the highest number of swatiskas our our planet !
Oh, Just before 4 minutes, a photo from young Sophie Scholl, the resistant in Munich Who was to pay with her life her opposition to the party ... !!
To realise that German soldiers stayed here til one year After 1944 is also stunning.
I would like to know more about this subject, not just a propaganda film, but interviews with the people who were there at the time...
There have been more than one very good TV documentary, about the factual experience, of living under the occupation, Seek them out, on DVD.
'Propaganda film', lol
@@MrDaiseymay Also a now out of print book called "Islands in Danger" If you can find a copy, a very intetesting read.
Imagine this but on the mainland
Why in hell did the doctor in charge of the tunnel hospital have a picture of Sophie Scholl?
Amazing to see just the quality of the older footage to what we have now! Or maybe the world was dull and gloomy like this and it's evolving to HD and clearer pixels!.oh wait wrong video that's them Who think we live in a simulation lol
When the Germans came, why did the Brits left the poor island-people to fate without fireing a single shot?
The islands were indefensible, it would have condemned 1,000’s of servicemen to death or imprisonment when it seemed they were desperately required on the mainland to defend the (at the time) imminent German invasion of Britain, Operation Seelowe. It also saved the lives of civilians who would have been caught up in the battles.
@@keithorbell8946 Maybe. After all, civilians seemed to be treated fair by the Germans. After war, some took brides from the island-girls...
@@9traktor they were not treated fair. The occupation was a grim time. And also all civilians were given the option to seek refuge on mainland U.K., it just many of them (mostly farmers) had to maintain their lively hood or they would have had no island to come back to
Because that would have resulted in the heavy bombing of the Channel Islands, civilians and servicemen would have been slaughtered, St. Helier would have been destroyed.
@@9traktor Because those island-girls would have been murdered by a mob had they not left.
it has baffled me for years why the marshaling of the allied armada and its crossing on June 6 were so missed by these forward vantage points that the Nazi had.
The (British) Channel Islands are much closer to France than England and on the far side of the Cherbourg Peninsula from the Normandy landings thus there was nothing to see. The nearness to France is also the main reason why Britain abandoned them in the first place; could not be defended. Rejoice for your bafflement is ended; looking at a *map* wouldn't hurt you either.
My grandfather was living in Guernsey during the nazi .occupation. Dad.was in the RAF.
I'm sorry but what are these comments? If you hate the monarchy or just Britain in general why watch this?
5:10 "...for five years in their futile attempt to subjugate the spirits of the people. For Vice-admiral Hufmeyer, the military commander, the acceptance of defeat, maintaining that typical arrogance which demands 'right-of-way'. ....[as he gently nudges an oblivious British naval captain who is blocking his path off the island]." ....The spirit of EVERY Brit on the island is give way to Vice-Admiral Hufmeyer!
"Ja, ja! ....Do you vant me off ziis island or not?!?"
Here's why Vice-Admiral Friedrich Hüffmeier is deserving of respect:
ruclips.net/video/KmZSd6AxNqA/видео.html . (The Granville Raid of March 9th, 1945)
@@MrJm323 So ... he planned and ordered a successful raid - that's what he gets the bucks for, isn't it? I don't see anything in that video that indicates why he deserves any more respect than any other soldier.
@@nozecone ....I do.
Interesting, you think the Kriegsmarine was going to dock his pay if he didn't plan the raid (or if it failed)? .....Huh. I don't think that's how it works.
On the other hand, he could have called the Royal Navy on the wireless and asked them to accept his command's surrender soon after D-Day or after the fall of Paris. ....And, you figure it was because of his fantastic pay as a flag-grade officer in the Kriegsmarine that made him decide to stick it out. ...Fascinating.
@@MrJm323 No, I didn't say that's why he did it. From what you say, it sounds like he was just another misguided, arrogant fool who put no value on human life. Respect.
I too just saw a gentle nudge! Did Admiral Hufmeyer speak any English? Maybe he didn't how to say "Excuse or pardon me"
I was thinking about collaborators…..especially that copper…!!
During the period of this Anniversary the Queen Mother is known to have been in discussion with senior military officers and MI5, the idea of staging a coup against the current Labour government and installing Lord Mountbatten as defacto dictator. So not really opposed to fascists just non English fascists.
That was the dumbest attempt they tryed and then tryed to lie about it!
Molto interessante.
The British cop should be ashamed 👎
What was the alternative, be shipped off to a concentration camp in Europe, leaving his family to fend for themselves?
Come on, you weren't there, none of us can say with absolute certainty how we would or wouldn't act in that situation, they just wanted to survive.
I bet you would have done exactly the same.
He did what he had to do. No real choice.
shut up youtube generals are so stupid..........ppl did what they had to do in the grimmest of circumstances....
At 03.53 sophie scholl.
Never stepped foot on mainland Britain tho 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
No offense but does air raid count or nah?
@@shadowsupremeja7352 the airmen that were shot down didn't last very long in the UK before becoming PoWs or dead.
Id rather speak german than What we will all be speaking in a few generations - Arabic
Hope you save yourselves
Englandistan looks ripe for exploitation
How long before our illegal immigrants get their hands on the Channel Islands when we run out of 4* Hotels in the England ?
Long live the queen that's so funny because she's absolutely hated nowadays haha
Scottish bonsai, seems your brain is as stunted as the trees you call yourself,
The Germans did a favour for English language, since the evacuations stopped local kids from speaking the old Norman dialect.
I guess if you consider loss of culture a good thing...
@@FatShork I meant that as a negative, hard to convey tone online :)
Rule Britannia