Description
Object description
British civilian builder on Jersey, Channel Islands, GB, 1940-1943; internee in Lager Norderney Labour Camp, Alderney, Channel Islands, GB, 1943-1944; served as auxiliary policeman in St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, GB, 1944-1945
Content description
REEL 1 Background in St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, GB, 1924-1940: family; education. Recollections of period as builder living on Jersey during German occupation of the Channel Islands, GB, 1940-1943: arrival of German forces on island, 6/1940; German Air Force attack, 28/6/1940; failure of family to escape to GB; shortage of building materials; building work he did. Recollections of period of internee in Lager Norderney Labour Camp, Alderney, Channel Islands, GB, 1943-1944: reasons for arrest as an undesirable element; deportation to Alderney; work he did on island; being reported for listening to radio; daily routine in Lager Norderney; types of work done; character of German supervision; deaths in camp from starvation.
REEL 2 Continues: ablution problems; reasons why other inmates were sent to camp; description of the 'Tunnel of Death'; punishments inflicted; disappearance of prisoners; reasons for German inmates' imprisonment; impossibility of escape; sight of operations around time of D-Day, 6/1944; removal of prisoners to Jersey, summer 1944; release. Aspects of period as auxiliary policeman in St Helier, Jersey during German occupation of the Channel Islands, GB, 1944-1945: obtaining employment; duties in St Helier.
REEL 3 Continues: duties on Liberation Day, 9/5/1945; retaliation against collaborators; reaction of population to liberation; reception for British troops; pleasure of having white bread. Reflections on German occupation of the Channel Islands, 1940-1945: attitude towards Germans; German stripping of Jersey, 1940; question of role of States; fate of his fellow Jerseyman imprisoned in Lager Norderney Labour Camp; a Jewish owned shop in St Helier; reasons for presence of men from Jersey and Guernsey on Alderney; question of possible liberation of camps on Alderney; degree of resistance on Jersey.