CIOS Occupation pictures
The Channel Island Occupation Society has done much to record the history of the bleak period in the history of the Channel Islands between 1940 and 1945 when they were occupied by German troops. In 2011 a new initiative in Guernsey saw a new website created of images from the war years and many of the photographs were enlarged and put on presentation boards at important places throughout the island.
Jerripedia co-operated with this Festung Guernsey initiative and shared pictures with the organisers. A new batch of Occupation pictures from Jersey, many of them not previously published, was provided to Jerripedia and appears in the gallery below. Click on any image to see a larger version.
See our photo gallery of the German Occupation for more pictures of wartime Jersey.
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