Occupied Britain Originals Collection - Channel Islands - Kanalinseln - Guernsey - Jersey

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Yesterday I received an important new collection of originals and I’m as excited as a child on Christmas morning. It’s a marvelous private collection from a German soldier that even includes this rare English language news reel. That isn’t odd because he was stationed on the Channel Island of Guernsey during 1943 which was the only British territory occupied during the war.

One of my subscribers asked to see more of the originals that I use to make the videos and this is a good opportunity. The collection includes the 1940 film reel, a book that was published by the German occupation authority, a soldier’s report from 1943 about the islands, and from the same year an original Deutsche Guernsey Zeitung which was a newspaper printed by the occupiers. But the most interesting piece in the collection is a unique 1941 map of the island Alderney which gives insight into what the Germans had planned for the future.

Unfortunately my happy Christmas doesn’t have a happy ending. Once I’ve completed and uploaded the videos I’ll have to sell the collection. So, if you are possibly in buying it, let me know. But if you are not interested in the collection, that’s fine with me too.

The sign says that this is the headquarters of the German Commander of the Channel Islands. Unfortunately this sign wasn’t part of the collection. The newsreel is from the Ausland Tonwoche series and was produced specifically to be shown in the occupied channel islands. It was produced (at the end) of 1940 and has a runtime of 6.15 Min. We’ll be watching more of the reel and footage from other sources in the videos I produce.