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On June 28th 1940 Nazi Germany did unprovoked attack on British Channel Islands. Forty-three people were killed and 44 injured when German planes attacked the two islands on 28 June 1940. The air raid on St Peter Port and St Helier heralded the beginning of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands which lasted for five years.

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Channel Islands Evacuation

The evacuation of civilians from the Channel Islands in 1940 primarily from Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney to Great Britain during World War II.

Deportation

1942 Germans deported 2,300 Britain born living in Islands and many more groups and People including Jews.

Many being sent to Camps in Europe.

Liberation 1945

The Channel Islands being Liberated in May 1945.

Jersey and Guernsey on May 9th 1945 and Sark and Alderney days later.

Nazi Occupation

Channel Islands being the only part of British Isles to be occupied by Nazi Germany during World War 2.

Alderney

Germans built extensive prisoner camps across the Islands for imported Slave Workers and Concentration Camps on Alderney. Lager Sylt was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney.

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German Underground Hospitals

Germans Occupation forces built extensive military fortifications like Underground Hospital Jersey and Guernsey.