Britain's Channel Islands Occupied by Germans

From the March 16, 2010, BBC.

On June 30, 1940, German forces occuped Britain's Channel Islands and remained there until the liberation May 9, 1945.  This was the only part of the British isles occupied during the course of the war.

In March of 2010, there was an exhibition of items from 1000 people there who were deported to internment camps.  Most were just young children at the time.

Michael Martel's family were deported in 1942 and moved subsequently to several camps.  His father was a cobbler whose skills were used by the Germans.

Gil Chubb was sent to Biberach Camp and remembers being "terrified of the Germans." The Gestapo "were like big black birds" with their long black leather coats and caps."

Something I Didn't Know.  --GreGen