Green, Maurice Edward (Oral history)

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Description

Object description

British schoolchild on Jersey, Channel Islands, 6/1940-5/1945

Content description

REEL 1 Background on Jersey, Channel Islands, 1927-1939: family circumstances; medical problems with diabetes; starting printing business. Recollections of period as civilian on Jersey during German occupation of the Channel Islands, GB, 6/1940-5/1945: German Air Force attack, 28/6/1940; reaction to arrival of Germans, 6/1940; behaviour of first German Army troops; German propaganda photograph taken of schoolchildren; fate of diabetics without insulin and discharging himself from hospital; strategy for survival and receiving insulin from German Army soldier; plan to kill German commandant; sabotage of railway line and engine. REEL 2 Continues: punishment for stealing German Army uniform and rifle; sabotaging German Army saluting order; other incidents of sabotage and stealing; his V-sign Christmas card; arrest for stoning German Army soldiers; witnessing execution of German Army soldier; opinion of women who associated with German Army troops; question of surviving without insulin; sight of beating of forced labourer; conditions for forced labourers; conversation with forced labourers; farmer's concealment of forced labourers; question of role of States; arrest of father for resistance work. REEL 3 Continues: Aspects of father Stanley Green's experiences in German custody in France and as inmate of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany, 8/1944-4/1945: character of father's resistance activity; attempt to communicate in code with father in prison; father's witnessing of torture of Dutch agent in Fresnes Prison, Paris; father's experiences in Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany and at Gestapo headquarters in Paris, France; attitude towards Germans. Aspects of liberation of Channel Islands, 5/1945: attitude to lack of British help; looting of German arms by children; reception for British Army troops; revenge against collaborators. REEL 4 Continues: respect for British prisoners by inmates in Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Wood, Conrad (Recorder)
Green, Maurice Edward (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1989-05-24
Dimensions: whole: Duration 120, Number Of Items 4
Catalogue number: 10716

Object associations

Associated people and organisations

Green, Maurice Edward
Green, Stanley George
German Concentration Camp, Buchenwald, Germany
Prison, Fresnes Prison, Paris, France
German Army
British Army
Associated places

Channel Islands, United Kingdom
Jersey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom
France
Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France
Germany
Associated keywords

Resistance
Associated themes

The Occupation of the Channel Islands, 1940-1945
Nazi Europe, 1933-1945
Holocaust

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