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.
A Messerschmidt at Jersey Airport during the Occupation
A contemporary picture of one of the many German defensive installations
A German gun above the Grouville coast
A German cargo vessel in St Helier Harbour
St Helier Harbour
A German railway line carried across the Old Harbour on trestles
The pierheads
German dredgers in the harbour
A German censor controls operations at the Jersey Evening Post
A gun at Les Landes
A warning notice in front of a coastal minefield
A Messerschmidt at the Airport
German troops marching
The Pomme d'Or Hotel, which would be at the centre of Liberation celebrations in 1945, was commandeered by the Germans throughout their occupation of the island
The Queen's Road power station
Springfield Stadium
Organisation Todt workers in St Ouen's Bay
A senior officer inspects German troops
The Red Cross vessel Vega, which brought emergency food parcels to the islands
Unloading parcels from the Vega
Taking Vega parcels home
The Allied war cemetery in Howard Davis Park
The Howard Davis Park cemetery
German signs at Pier Road
German signs at Mont Millais
The Germans brought many captured light French tanks to the island
Tanks after the Liberation
A German locomotive
