Dr Albert Kowald (Guernsey) (WWII) - BBC Breakfast News - 15th September 2018

Описание: During World War Two (1939 - 1945) the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by Nazi Germany was the Channel Islands off the French coast.

With the find of an old dusty box in a dusty cupboard, emerges the story of one German doctor (Albert Kowald), who went out of his way and against orders, to help the impoverished and hard pressed civilian population in these territories and how the full extent of his role during WWII were unknown to his family with some surprises for his daughter when she visited these many decades later.

There are hundreds of millions of stories during WWII but you occasionally hear of good people from all sides. We may be more familiar with allied countries, organisations and individuals, but there were many (usually) individuals from the Axis side who's also tried to save Jewish people, civilians, allied troops in Germany and occupied territories.

Examples are Oskar Schindler and Chiune Sugihara & many, many individuals and couples who saved as many Jewsish people as they could. There was also, the Japanese POW camp doctor who went against orders to sneak in medical supplies to the POWs in his camp, to a German soldier told to take a tied Russian prisoner to the woods and shoot him - but released him and of course here, the German Luftwaffe doctor Albert Kowald, who went above and beyond to help the civilian population on Guernsey, until he was betrayed by his superiors and imprisoned. Luftwaffe officer Dr Albert Kowald - was known as the "good doctor" and this story tells you why. On occasion units from the Luftwaffe or German Army would protest against certain orders from the SS, but these depended on certain circumstances and were few and far between and some may never be told, as they lost to history.


The Channel Islands were heavily fortified in WWII and later used as a convalescence for wounded German troops, up to the point of D-Day and the Channel Islands then, remained in German hands until the end of the war.