Surreal Footage of British Life Under Nazi Occupation
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2019
- It’s 1941 and the Nazis are in full control of the British island of Alderney. They begin to construct fortifications to protect their grip on the Channel Islands - often with slave labor.
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They never taught any of this in school. Thank you!
Same here! Curious, where did you go to school?
Tony blair is a murderer
The shame of state education rules, I learnt about this sad episode when I was 12 but I attended an independent school outside of state restrictions 🙃
@flip inheck Wrong again, he also found plenty of opportunity to betray them during peacetime 😉
@@samhelinski1855 david cameron is a mass murderer
I've never seen the footage of the British officer driving Germans! Crazy scene
Subtitles don't match the audio. Looks like they belong on a different video.
I’ve been watching this channel for a long time trust me there subtitles go off a lot I mean a lot
There videos are accurate but there subtitles are always wonky
I was just about ready to being them up lol
Bizzarely the autogenerated subtitles are actually better.
totally !
surprisingly, the Channel Islands remained occupied until the very end of the war. a successful raid was launched by the Kreigsmarine from Jersey against the costal harbor of Granville in Normandy in 1945.
So, the German Navy liberated the island from the Nazis ?
@@ikglsamte_2056 Normandy is in France. By 1944, France was already liberated. In 1945 France was fighting the nazis on full force.
@@_Jaspy_ Thank you
@@ikglsamte_2056 np :)
Makes perfect sense from a military perspective as when France fell it's not really needed as a base and it's incredibly well defended. The benefits of taking the islands simply aren't worth the resources.
I spoke with residents of St Peter Port in 1975 who experienced the occupation. According to them the German garrison on Guernsey were, by the time the war in Europe was coming to its close, half-dead from starvation. They weren't doing too good themselves either.
@Keith Busch I agree but as the Allies closed in on Germany from all sides in 1944/45 the food situation in Germany itself was becoming dire. Soldiers in far flung outposts like the Channel Islands were written off and the residents I spoke with said they all felt sorry for these young Germans. Doubtless they had sons too and to their credit they felt pity for them.
@@stnicholas54 cool
@@stnicholas54 My grandgrandfather was a part of the early occupation force. They actually had not too much bad blood with the locals. I guess it changed when they increased the forces there. At the start they were only a very small force.
Very heavily skewed narration, I would have expected better from Smithsonian. I live on the Channel Island of Jersey. The islands were de-militarised by the British government in June 1940 and British officials and their families evacuated. The islanders however were left behind and had no realistic option other than to accept German occupation. There were no British military forces left to 'defend' the islands, so the local government, in an effort to protect the lives and property of islanders, reluctantly accepted German rule for the next 5 years.
Yep, agree 100%......it is heavily opinionated to the point where the actual facts don't seem to matter! The truth ends up getting lost in the end....just to make way for a "good" story! Sad really!
Not quite so. My father used to collect RAF leaflets dropped on the Island. Unfortunately, one found itself in the hand of a man who gave it to a Jersey Policeman. He had no need to, but he gave it to the Germans who arrested him, interrogated him, and imprisoned him for "distributing enemy propaganda"
I've always asserted that this is indicative of "Vichy" collaboration...
Never knew this.
Now you know what the Nazis were. Socialist pigs that's all.
@Rich *oy*
We are all in the same boat
@Rich oy
Mr Olonzo they werent though
It would be nice to see the whole documentary sometimes instead of just three minutes.
U gotta pay boi
Get the Smithsonian channel
Dennis Beers that’s not how filmmaking works. Pay money.
Well there's a documentary channel called best documentaries
I never knew about this or thought about these islands in ww2. Thanks
You forgot that the british decided to withdraw, strategically, before the germans even thought about attacking.
gamers rise up why did they withdraw from the islands then?
@@fduck6498 because in the situation they were in, was that they qere extremely low on manpower, and had troops expanded far and wide, and they decided that it would be easier and more tactical to just evacuate most of the civilians and abandon the islands as they had no stratigic value, then move needed troops to some islands of no value.
FossilLattice 85 about 140000 (give or take) civilians lived in the islands and there was barely any time to evacuate all of them but several tens of thousands did get off with about 10000 serving in the war
FossilLattice 85 unfortunately if our local militias and other forces had tried to fight the enemy at home the islands would have been bombed off the face of the earth. However the men of the militias did go on to fight for the British armed forces.
@@enveenva5584 i thank you two for having an open and scholarly discussion, i have seen too many RUclips comments spiral into derogatory and pointless yelling competition's.
I am from Guernsey and everyone here knows about this. There are dozens of bunkers around the island and there used to be massive guns. Alderney had 4 prison camps and thousands of deaths were there
J’imagine la réception, l’accueil, le soulagement de la population envers ses libérateurs et en particulier l’intendance. 😉
I live on Guernsey and I am proud . Our history is amazing . If you want to come and see . We will be glad to see you with welcome arms
Likewise, born in Jersey but have lived in Guernsey pretty much all my life. Glad to see our history getting more recognition. And people just being aware that we exist xD
Well that's awfully kind of you. I look forward to visiting the brave Islands Three
What is there to do in Guernsey?
@@jonathandempsey9228 history , nice beaches , lots of fresh air and nice people
It’s such a shame that as little as five years ago, when I was in school, this wasn’t taught. I believe you have an occupation museum? Planning on visiting and learning more about your mysterious little gem of an island. All the best.
“All slaves” except that one german officer that is shovelling too. Must have been the only one, an anomaly.
Its propoganda footage, of course it will make the Germans look good. Sorry to break it to you but propoganda footage is inaccurate.
It's an effective technique for creating repore and boosting morale. Even Nazis understood that.
I've been fortunate enough to learn from quite a few German holocaust survivors (ethnic Germans, not Jewish), and there were definite moments of humanity that shone through the evil of the Nazis actions. Accounts of SS guards defying orders and slipping some extra bread, or looking the other way during an escape. All the evil rhetoric and propaganda in the world couldn't completely shut off their humanity. Some went full evil, but others knew something was wrong.
Let that be a lesson on following orders.
Britain practically destroyed Germany's Navy and airforce before any other country stepped in. And yes, I'm American,who understands the real history of ww2. Britain done the hard work
You're the first American I've heard that actually understands what really happend during the war. The British had already been fighting for 2 years before the USA got involved. It really is impressive how fast the Nazi's occupied Europe. Hitler's downfall was choosing to fight a war on two fronts which stretched his armies, eventually it became too difficult for the Germans to get supplies to the front lines and they started to fall back, when your boys joined in his days were numbered.
Speaking as a dual national agreed. Even before the war American assistance in terms of materials was vital after the losses at Dunkirk, and for an under prepared Royal Navy in terms of the land lease destroyers to bulk up RN numbers. However Britain was far from defeated, and after the defeat of the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain was never really in any danger of being invaded. It's important not to forget the men of the countries such as New Zealand, Australia and India who fought along side British troops from the wars start.
Oliver Fowler How fast they invaded?
It took them long enough to make a decision.
Even after the Saar offensive, to the day Churchill came into power it was around 7-8 months before they bothered, the French probably didn’t think that the Germans would drive around the Maginot line.
The invasion of the Netherlands and France was down to ground gain to avoid the trench warfare of the First World War, where a stalemate happened up to 1916.
Britain did NOT do the hard work, it was done by the Soviets, they took the brunt of the n@zi war Machine, even if the western allies didn't make the landings at normandy, the soviets would have still won, of course with more casualties and a lot more time but slowly but surely the soviets would have won
@@ollie2244 No, the Germans were clever, they never chose to fight at two fronts, they were forced to do so, they quickly eliminated France and other countries and then proceeded to attack the soviets, but the Germans were forced to fight on two sides after d day
Got to see this firsthand while visiting Jersey...
None of this should ever have happened. It's horrible.
To stop it one must understand why.
You're right. The UK & France shouldn't have declared war on Germany. Thus, millions of lives could of been saved
elsa1942 if England and France decided to not to get involved with Germany’s land dispute, millions of lives could have been saved!
@@omega0195I have a bridge to sell you
I remember seeing the transmission for the surrender of guernsey in a museum their, also went in a half built bunker, if you can would recommend a visit
Yeah I remember that one of the very first missions that the British Special Forces undertook was a raid on one of these islands.
it was in Jersey. we have a memorial stone at Little Egypt for the fallen SBS commando.
I remember 35 years ago reading a very small paperback publication written by a Spaniard (I think) who was one of the prisoners/work gang. Very harrowing accounts including prisoners executed and thrown into the harbour which was piled with dead bodies.
How can i watch the full documentary in the UK?! Im desperate...
Just found out about this through the Amazon show Islands at War. Riveting and, oh so sad and deplorable!
Never again.
never again a war with a psycho leading us too it???? dont be so naieve! humans are destroyers!
@Vegtam Borsson
@@jonathanschadenfreude9603 @ agree, just look at our leaders, we will be at war again and it will start in a surprising place, unfortunately our leaders have sold us out with their trade deals like the EU and the United nations
That's what Socialism does, makes slavery of everyone. Hope next election these voter's better vote for Freedom instead of poison Socialism.
Do you feel woke now???
Same thing happened to me once.
They aren’t British at all, they are under direct control of the queen but she delegates the running of the Channel Islands to local assemblies
Crown colony.
@@kob3426 nope. Crown dependency. Gibraltar, falklands etc are British overseas territories (formerly crown colonies) but jersey, Isle of Man etc are slightly different.
@@tobeytransport2802 still british territory....the uk is responsible for there defense.
@@camm8642 Not British territory - Crown Dependencies with their own governments. Much wider powers than, for example, Wales.
@@rogueuniversities6866 there protection is still the responsibility of the british....
The subtitles don't match....
Subtitles are completely different to what is being said in the audio.
I wonder after watching this little clip, were any islanders pressed into service, building the bunkers, sea walls, etc?
No, it was all done by forced labour.
the quality of your videos really slipping. taking scenes from documentaries with next to no context, the video always end at an inappropriate time and half of your videos have mis-matched subtitles. Why am I bothering coming here again?
fanny how when they want to accuse Germany of some "crimes" without proofs they just said "Germany destroyed all evidence"
Actually, the Nazis, being German and in love with preserving legacy kept really good records. Most prosecutions of Nazis were backed up by evidence produced by Nazis and stored.
@@amandapinkgelato9482 3:01
I understand there was an investigation on collaborators on Jersey. The results were placed in a 100 year file. I will be 90 years old in 2045. I want to read the file.
It was mainly irish who helped the nazis
i didnt know i was watching a man in the high castle parody
As others have stated in the comments, I didn’t know any of this.
The captions don't match whatsoever with the video. They make sense but the captions just give you way more info then what's being said. Although they do mention using drones with LIDAR lasers to map the camps. Don't think they had LIDAR lasers back then. They must be talking about present day.
"It's brighter here !"
Yeah.... yeeaaah... okay...
I wonder what the German Wehrmacht thought about the British people, police there etc
From what I have read the German soldiers were very friendly towards the local population.
I thought the title was a typo. Turns out I just don't know much.
British was very good at implementing forced labour tactics in Its colonies
Name one, once. Oh, you can't. 🙄
You don't like movie "The King"?
Like the way she says " Bonkers ".
Why am i subbed to this channel lol. I dont hate the video the only reason i subbed for the plane crash vids
AidenThat1Cuber same
@@finntw117 ooooooooooooooh your early too
I can’t believe we weren’t taught about this in school!
Oberst Kurt Steiner and his few men were attached at a penal colony in the Channel Island of Alderney.
Or so says Jack Higgins in The Eagle has Landed, one of the best historical fiction books ever.
No one can match the German engineering and technology....
Its overrated by americans with their surplus injections due to geopolitical positioning against russia
We have much better teach now tho
German engineering and technology may be the best in Europe,but in whole world,asian countries like south korea Japan and Singapore take the lead in current times
In 1000s of years ago,China,Egypt and India had great engineering structures imo
As far as technology,china was very superior
Culture is key. In the 19th century Germans embraced a hard work ethic and integrity and pride in their workmanship. When I was young I learned alot under an old German holocaust survivor. That culture is one of the greatest things the German people have to impart to this world. The Japanese have a very similar mindset and marshall discipline.
Unfortunately the German youth seem to be losing that ethic from what I have heard from German friends.
There was a British TV drama series about this in the nineties, I believe. I forget the name of it. Google it and check it out. I liked it.
Interesting! Thanks for the tip I'll see if I can find it. I had no idea the British isles had been invaded 😮
Just as well the UK was an island.
I'm studying history so this video comes on point !
Me too! Good luck!
Watch 'The Greatest Story Never Told'
if you wryly want learn something get the book from madeleine bunting ( the model occupation )the channel island under German rule 1940-45 most of those story were covert up by the British government, it show that the brits especially the well off were collaborating with the German SS
Sugoi
@@jrobi501 Jarod ?
We defeated the wrong enemy.
-General George Patton
"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.
"
- Air Marshal Arthur Harris
Kristian Rodwell, nice
The words appearing at the bottom of the screen have absolutely no relevance with what's spoken!
Is it RUclips subtitles?
still are
Some just can't say what they're doing because its garbage and illegal.
They can go on about the forced labour camps all they want, the allies did the exact same thing.
Danny The western allies at least paid their laborers.
Not even close to "exact"!
Not the exact, but all sides had camps for POW’s, concentration or not
@@spacemarinechaplain9367
did they?
what about the German POWs who were forced to clear minefields by hand after the war ended? i don't think they got paid at all, just given rations.
Better than what London is now
Amen to that
Neckbeard moment
Another incel I see
The Man In The High Castle but in real life
Nice modern map at the start instead of actual pre ww2 borders map.
The better title should be tons of country under british occupation
Good
For a completely different subject. So, pointless, much like your comment.
Your comment is pointless
The channel islands have been british for centuries
Thanx for sharing the info. For Indians it is indeed an important news☺
Why
@@dwightdraper2767 because if I may awnser it is part of the war in which many many Indian soldiers gave their lives to !
The truth is Britain completely failed her territories in WWII, especially those in the Far East. Read the transcripts and you realise the British war and government machinery was absorbed more in 'principles' and processes than effective defence. Again and again, their forces had outdated technology and their commanders were mostly officers who did understand how to strike to win. From Dunkirk to Singapore, there were too many terrible failures in command. Thank goodness, the Falklands proved her fighting men to be good, but again, her complete failure to protect the territories Britain governs.
'...Again and again, their forces had outdated technology'
We invented radar and deployed it in secret, the world would be a very different place now if we hadn't done so.
We also developed the jet engine and supplied it to our allies.
Not too shabby, I'd say, 🤝
Operation Compass is by numbers perhaps the most decisive victory of the entire war (on numbers not influence). William Slim flipped a desperate situation on its head and won a campaign against Japan in the Burma. UK along with the help of some Poles, Canadians and others repelled the Naz1 invasion at the Battle of Britain. Even just mobilising a global empire is a big deal.
Alan Turing cracked the enigma and invented the modern computer in the process. Poles started it off and must be recognised and appreciated but Turing took it to the next level. The Royal Navy sunk the Bismarck. British intelligence used a dead body with fake plans to deceive German high command. Plus Montgomery’s campaign in North Africa and inventing Radar as the user above me mentioned.
So there was hardly only defeats.
But yes of course there were defeats too. Pound for pound, Germany’s army was the best in the world.
@@KumaBean Exactly there weren’t just setbacks, see my comment.
ah the things you can do with stock footage
well you know (
yes i go lol good stuff buddy
I dislike because Guernsey and Jersey do not look like Alderney
They weren't persecuted, the wrong side won....
When it came down to it, the British decided to go around and not capture these Channel Islands. Therefore encircling the Germans entrenched
Crentshen there was nothing to attack on their own islands, it was better to go around them and let them surrender as supplies ran out.
flip inheck well, we speak English. Everyone here is either English or Portuguese so I’d say we are British despite not being part of the uk
@TheMaxntoby there was a plan to retake the islands by force but anyone who ha ever visited would know that would be madness. It was estimated that the lost of life in assault would be one of the highest in the war so they quickly abandoned that idea. The Germans built enormous numbers of bunker systems, they became fortresses. It would have been insane to try. Fewer civilians would die from starvation than an assault. I’m glad they didn’t try to take us back directly. It would have been suicidal.
Was anyone else getting subtitles that matched some random video?
Even the German soilders that weren't fit had to go they were germans and they were forced imagine the Germans back home when they heard of this
Here, have some of these (,,,,, ....). If you need any more then just let me know - I've got plenty enough.
Alan touring, who was poisdned with an aple( it -profucer Aple honoured by using an aple as their symbol!
and after all that, they just went around them, and ignored them. what a waste.
Nonsense! It bled the Nazis white paying for it. The guerrilla chooses his battles. The stronger force everywhere defends.
@@johnhardin4358 r/whoooosh
the Allied troops couldn't attack the Channel Islands due to the amount of defenses. 18% of all concrete and steel used on the Atlantik wall was use there. the islands where called Festung's for a reason.
@@jeanlongsden1696wrong. The allies didn’t attack because it would’ve caused a major loss of civilian life.
@@dannjp75 well I can clearly see that you have never spoken to anyone who was in Jersey through the occupation (local or German) or read the reports of the SBS commando's who landed on the the island to gather intelligence. but feel free in believing that the Allies wouldn't want to cause civilian casualties when reading anything about Allied Bomber Command.
I knew about the occupation of the channel islands
Never explored it in depth
The Atlantic wall was never nothing more than propoganda, a failiure which didn't even live upto its task
Thank you for this video
I’ve been to New Jersey. It’s exactly like Jersey but newer.
Historical island
robertg305 it
its national humilation but at least the UK and its empire were otherwise unoccupied unlike so many France and the low countries,Poland,Denmark,Norway,Greece, FR Yugoslavia and vast areas of the Soviet Union for years
awesome
There were jewish people trapped on those island who were persecuted then deported to be murdered on the continent.And there even were some channel islanders who willingly collaborated in this hiddeous cruelty on the islands.
"they destroyed all evidence but also we know they did it because of these videos".
Is this sarcasm serious question
Umm I was gonna say this is not mainland britian
We should not have declared war on Germany
Smithsonian hides giant skeletons.
Why?
Disproves evolution.
There is no proof they don't
@@christopherjames3174 you cant disprove fact
Woiiii mad scenes
That's almost as bad as the poverty and beatings Germans suffered under the treaty of Versailles.
Beatings? What do you mean by this?
@@dantecaputo2629 france occupied Germany after WWI and lynched folks daily.
The music sounds like a metal gear solid briefing scene
Nazi's...always running away.
Some of the workers had German uniforms on smiling and working. If you’re going to pipe up the forced labor thing at least use some footage that fits your agenda.
Some of the members of Organization Todt were professional German construction workers and engineers, there were also Army Engineers and construction troops, so that doesn't surprise me that you saw that.
@@konstantinosnikolakakis8125 they should’ve specified that, the ethnic Germans were treated properly, while the rest, were not treated properly. Instead they generalized EVERYONE into being slaves. Which some of them were.
But all the men that were unfit for military duty in Germany, were most definitely treated humanely because, they were Germans.
By the end of the war , supplies to the Islands were non existent & food scarce . The Germans ate the majority of pet dogs & cats . Bet they don't teach that in schools.
Seeing this, i can't help but wonder, were the ancient Egyptians fascist's?
Seeing footage of labourers(slaves) digging & building, were the Egyptian slaves actually POW's? The slaves who were forced to build the pyramids werent native Egyptian? I can wonder all day long about the possibilities not written in history books.
You should never take what you read, hear or watch as 100% gospel, there will always be that little percentage of inconsistency.
Me and my friend after finding a minecraft village
I'd probably be unfit for the Wehrmacht.
Not true brother. If you have the fighting spirit in you. And you were health conscious and cared about your Volk, they wouldve been happy to have you serve.
The “Channel Islands” (which is not an official name) are not part of Great Britain, and are not part part of the United Kingdom. The islands are two ”crown dependencies” in Normandy. Since the islands are not part of (Great) Britain or the UK, they are not members of the Commonwealth of Nations (the British Commonwealth).
there protection is the responsibility of the UK and the channel Islanders are British citizens.....
He should be gathered all his troops and went to Britain
probably a better option, though he could have fortified the mainland instead
Meanwhile another genocide takes place in kashmir. No food no medicine 31st day of complete lockdown. People starving to death. Journalists politicians everyone anyone who dares question is detained.
Awwwww...have any idea of the near wiping-off of Sikhs and Hindus in Pakistan? No?
@@vippsmillennial6336 . Please read the un human rights report on abuses in kashmir. The crimes of indian govt are too numerous to mention. If you have an ounce of humanity in you then the least you could do is not cover such crimes by inventing lies.
@@humanfirst9327 Well, I just saw a video of people living in POK protesting against the Pakistan Govt and wanting to join India!
Or is it that a lie???
@@vippsmillennial6336 . Deflect and attack. I see what you are trying to do here. Nonetheless i will enlighten you about what actually happened. The kashmiri people on pakistani side lost patience with world community for failing to act against the genocide and systematic murders and rapes taking place in indian occupied kashmir at the hands of indian military men. They protested but became emotional and wanted to go near the line of control. For their own safety the police stopped them before they could get within firing range of indian forces who would have fired bullets and rockets on the civilians which is exactly what they do on daily basis. Then the propaganda machine (400 tv channels of india and their loyal viewers like yourself) would have labelled them as terrorists trying to cross line of control. And then the next phase of hiding indian crimes in kashmir would have begun. I hope i have cleared some misinformation you were fed.
Just wipe each other off the map already
Auch wenn man Nazis verachtet, muß man zugeben, daß die Besatzung der Kanaleilande ziemlich friedlich abgelaufen ist, die Guernseyer usw und die Nazis waren sich nicht feindlich gesonnen, sondern lebten gut zusammen und hatten viel Berührung miteinander. Dieser Beitrag ist Stimmungsmache.
The Channel Islands are not 'British'. They are the remnants of the Duchy of Normandy, and are not part of either the EU or the Commonwealth of Nations, both of which they would be if they were part of Britain.
The Channel Islands are crown dependencies along with the Isle of Man.We do have some power over them but parliament rarely ever uses it.The people on islands are British citizens so they are somewhat British but have their own distinct Identity.Their relationship with the Eu is a bit weird as they are a member of the customs union and other elements to the EU.But not full members as uk deals in foreign affairs.
Shut up boomer
the channel islands are part of the British isle, not forgetting that the last siege in the English civil war happened in Jersey or that Elizabeth the first signed England over to the governor of Jersey.
lol. rekt.
The Channel Islands are not part of Britain nor the UK
there are possessions of the british crown though and the responsibility for there defense and foreign affairs is the UK's.
we are part of the British Isles. at least Google things before posting.
@@jeanlongsden1696 the Republic of Ireland and the Channel Islands are also part of the ‘British Isles’ but neither they nor the Isle of Man are part of Britain. There is a difference Jean and unjustified personal sarcastic slights are totally unwarranted.
@@andrewmaidstone480 I'm sorry, but I am a Jerseyman. so I do know what I am talking about. looks like you need to learn what a Bailiwick is.
Ten padeng👍
💪👍 but it waz 👈
They are their own realms.
british citizens and brits are responsible for there protection
If you believe in haunted places, than look no further.
Organization TODT - sounds like "tote"
The police should have been ashamed of themselves for submitting to occupation
the british government basically told them to do the best they could knowing the military realities u youtube keyboard warriors are the ones that should be ashamed probably wouldnt bust a grape in a fruit fight.
Das Yahudiii
Mmmmmmmmhm
Propaganda
Intriguing