Photo gallery of the German Occupation

Iconic images of the German Occupation

This page contains links to the largest online collection of pictures taken shortly before, during and immediately after the German Occupation of Jersey. More images will be found on pages containing individual articles on the German Occupation.

Occupation life

• Day-to-day life
• German troops on duty
• German troops off duty
• Soldiers' albums
• Sundry Occupation photographs, including German railway and shipping

German defences

• Bunkers: German defences and other installations
• German archive pictures of artillery installations
• Batterie Lothringen, Noirmont
• German high command inspection in 1941
• The 'green books', official German photographs given to La Société Jersiaise in 1947 Added 2023

Flying

• Jersey Airport under German control
• A day out in Jersey for a Luftwaffe crew Members of a Luftwaffe crew returned to see the island they had bombed just days before
• Training flight crashes at La Rocco, one of many air accidents, photographed by the Germans

Liberation

• The ship which brought life-saving food parcels to Jersey
• Pictures of the Liberation
• After the Liberation

Sundry galleries

• Kriegs Marine detachment: Images of a marine detachment stationed in Jersey
• CIOS Occupation pictures: Pictures given to Jerripedia by the Channel Island Occupation Society
• Photographs of a refugee camp in Normandy after the liberation of the region

German tanks on Victoria Avenue at Bel Royal - See the video