Photo gallery of the German Occupation

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Iconic images of the German Occupation

This page contains a substantial collection of pictures taken shortly before, during and immediately after the German Occupation of Jersey. Most, but not all, also appear on other pages illustrating articles about the Occupation. To see a larger version of any of the thumbnail pictures just click on it. If the strip of pictures across the top of the first section does not display in a single line on your screen you may need to adjust screen resolution. In some browsers this can be done and then reversed again by holding down the 'CRTL' key while turning the mouse scroll wheel.

Troops and fortifications gallery

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  • A German band performs in the Parade

  • German soldiers in the Parade

  • German soldiers outside the Town Hall

  • A picture by Leonard Skingle of German soldiers in the Parade

  • A German soldier with a Jersey family

  • Buying an icecream at Charing Cross

  • Charing Cross

  • A German company photographed at Oakwalk, St Lawrence

  • A German soldier on Gorey pier

  • Organisation Todt railway line along St John's Main Road

  • German soldier at La Corbière

  • Funeral of a British officer

  • German officers in Jersey

  • Troops arrive at the Forum Cinema

  • German troops in King Street

  • A postcard sent to a friend in SS headquarters, Berlin

  • Railway line along coast at La Collette

  • Major Knackfuss

  • Baron von Aufsess

  • Anti-aircraft gun

  • Noirmont gun emplacement

  • Trains moving sand from Grouville Bay

  • St Catherine searchlight

  • Motor cycle coastal patrol

  • Naval assault detachment

  • Off-duty German soldiers in a busy Queen Street

  • Either these Germans couldn't read the signs at the Airport or they couldn't care

  • The famous German command centre at Corbiere

  • The Operation Todt centre at People’s Park

  • Erich Gussek

  • Colonel Knackfuss

  • Some families befriended Germans and were ostracised by the community

  • German troops march through St Helier in a Victory parade

  • Photographs of their soldiers with ‘British Bobbies’ made marvellous propaganda for the Germans

  • A Jersey policeman gives directions to a German sailor

  • A German band marches through the streets of St Helier

  • A marching band was guaranteed to draw a crowd for a German photographer

  • The Germans created their own hospital in the Merton Hotel

  • German Admiral Huffmeier decorates those who took part in the 1944 Granville raid

  • This tower at Corbiere formed part of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall

  • A notice at Elizabeth Castle of German food rations

  • A german gun crew

  • Fauvic gun photographed by Emile Guiton

  • A large German gun at Noirmont

  • German soldiers parade in Jersey

  • A group of German officers gathered for an official photograph

  • The Germans created their own hospital at the Merton Hotel

  • The Germans' own newspaper which they ordered the Evening Post to print for them

  • A meeting in the German Commandant's office

  • A German Organisation Todt locomotive at the Weighbridge

  • Railway lines being laid by Organsiation Todt workers

  • The observation tower at La Corbiere

  • A German gun emplacement at Belle Hougue

  • A sign of the times: no entry to the Airport for civilians

  • An anti-aircraft gun at Mont Rossignol

  • A mobile field gun on a Jersey clifftop

  • The command bunker at Noirmont

  • A small field gun being moved at Elizabeth Castle

  • A field gun on the coast at First Tower

  • A gun emplacement at Fauvic

  • The command bunker at Gorey which was demolished in 1972

  • A large gun emplacement by St Ouen's Church

  • A gun being unloaded at the Harbour early in the Occupation

  • Anti-tank traps on the beach at La Haule

  • A gun crew at l'Ouziere in St Ouen's Bay

  • A clifftob gun at Noirmont defends St Aubin's Bay

  • The command bunker at Noirmont pictured in 1944

  • Turrets on the clifftop at Noirmont

  • A French field gun in the Jersey countryside

  • A sound locator to detect British aircraft

  • This gun emplacement at St Ouen was a dummy

  • An anti-tank gun

  • A rangefinder at Noirmont

  • An ugly new addition to St Aubin's old fort

  • A gun emplacement on Victoria Tower, a 19th century defence installation

  • A lookout point at Weswtmount where the gallows once stood

  • A gun emplacement at Woodlands, Grouville

  • A field gun mounted on a concrete bunker at Fauvic

  • A German gun emplacement

  • Bunker at Fort Henry

  • Island commandant Captain Gussek introduces officers to visiting German Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau

  • Burtons, on the corner of Halkett Place and King Street, was established as a special shop for Germans

  • A window display including German-English dictionaries

  • General Otto von Stulpnagel, German military commander of France, inspects Jersey's fortifications

  • A 'Victory Day' parade by German troops in Jersey on 9 August 1940

  • German bands were frequently seen on the streets of St Helier

  • The Forum was the Germans' cinema

  • German troops on an outing by bus

  • German officers riding on the beach

  • The goose step march was often seen on the streets

  • Gorey's harbourmaster with his German 'minder'

  • Captain Gussek at Government House

  • The harbour at St Helier was a prohibited area

  • The final German commandant, Admiral Huffmeier, visits Sark

  • A Junkers 88 at the Airport

  • A Junkers troop carrier

  • A sentry in the harbour area at La Folie

  • A propaganda photograph taken at l'Etacq

  • An air raid shelter in the Lower Park

  • Transport was limited later in the Occupation and troops marched everywhere

  • German minesweepers in St Helier Harbour

  • The Mayfair Hotel was a recreation centre for the Germans

  • A Messerschmidt 110 at Jersey Airport

  • German motor cycle and sidecar combinations were a common sight

  • A Jersey policeman outside the Town Hall with Germans

  • Two German sailors

  • The German flag flies over the Town Hall

  • A mounted German officer

  • The observation tower at Corbiere

  • A propaganda picture of a German soldier at Corbiere

  • The Forum Cinema was used by the German troops

  • The Airport under German control

  • The first German troops landed at the Airport

  • A German soldier inspects a cannon at Elizabeth Castle

  • A death notice issued as a warning to islanders

  • The cemetery at St Brelade's Church was used by the Germans

  • Pictures of German aircraft in Jersey are rare

  • German troops on the march

  • The German underground hospital

  • The German underground hospital

  • A restroom at the Underground Hospital

  • A motorcycle patrol on the shoreline

  • German military posts were manned throughout the Occupation

  • A naval detachment on parade

  • A German sentry outside the commandeered Town Hall

  • Some shops were commandeered for the German troops

  • Tar issued as fuel was frequently used to daub houses of alleged collaborators

  • Germans shopped freely when they arrived but were soon controlled as stocks dwindled

  • A giant telephoto lens in use

  • The Underground hospital was opened to the public in post-war years

  • Germans on parade

  • An air-raid shelter in the Parade

  • Refuelling a Messerschmidt at the Airport

  • Even this dog seems uncertain about befriending a German

  • Two German soldiers pose for a snapshot at La Haule

  • German soldiers with rabbits

  • German soldiers overlooking the harbour

  • A silhouetted German soldier

  • German soldiers relax at St Aubin

  • German officers relax at St Brelade's Bay Hotel

  • A social event for Germans at a St Brelade hotel

  • Ready to raise the German flag at Government House

  • German soldiers enjoyed swimming during their leisure time

  • A German tank abandoned opposite Millbrook Park

  • Tanks lined up after the Liberation at Millbrook

  • A visit by senior German officers in 1941

  • Capt Gussek takes the salute as troops march past in the Victory Parade

  • German troops on the march through St Helier

  • Pictures of German troops marching in the countryside (here at Petit Port) are very rare

  • The entrance to the Underground Hospital

  • Commandant von Schmettow and senior officers

  • The back entrance to the underground hospital at Cap Verde

  • The Germans ran a railway line across the entrance to the English Harbour on stilts

  • An Evening Post notice announcing the military zone

  • The funeral of a senior German officer

  • A German boat on patrol in island waters

  • Guards at the entrance to Government House

  • German staff at Government House

  • Major Heider outside the start of excavations for the underground hospital

  • An Organisation Todt railway engine

  • Railway lines laid at the Harbour by the Germans

  • A Feldpost postcard from 1944 showing a German uboat crew

  • A German staff car outside the churchyard at St Brelade

  • German window shoppers

  • Archirondel

  • Fort Henry

  • Fort Henry

  • La Haule

  • La Haule

  • La Haule

  • La Rocque

  • Le Hocq

  • Les Platons

  • Platte Rocque

  • A tank turret on the coast road near La Rocque

  • Les Platons

  • Verclut machine gun emplacement

  • Gorey Pier bunker

  • La Haule

  • Sentry

  • Town Hall

  • Troops at the Airport

  • Troops parade at the Harbour

  • Troops march through York Street

  • An inspection of forced labourers working at Noirmont

  • The Noirmont tower

  • An anti-aircraft gun at Plemont

  • A German soldier accompanies a patrolling policeman

  • A gun installation in St Ouen's Bay

  • Barbed wire at St Aubin

  • The tower at Les Landes

  • Anti-tank installation in St Aubin's Bay

  • A gun emplacement

  • German troops inspected

  • Soldiers at Victoria College

  • Germans off Noirmont in an amphibious vessel

  • Troops parade at Havre des Pas

  • Anti-aircraft gun

  • Anti-aircraft gun




Occupation life gallery

  • An Occupation curfew pass for a night worker

  • A travel pass permitting the holder to travel to the Normandy coast in 1940

  • Red Cross messages kept islanders and evacuees in touch

  • The main evacuation of civilians was in 1940, but some people left in 1939 after war broke out

  • A post-war get-together of illicit radio listeners at Bel Respiro

  • Vega

  • A German radio with a notice restricting its use

  • Food parcels from the Vega

  • Foodo parcels

  • The Vega in St Helier Harbour

  • An Occupation note printed in Jersey

  • Another Occupation banknote

  • A marching band was guaranteed to draw a crowd for a German photographer

  • The first German orders

  • Another set of German orders

  • The ‘’Evening Post’’ was strictly censored by the Germans

  • German troops march through St Helier in a victory parade

  • Pictures of islanders and German troops together were usually staged for the camera

  • A Jersey 'bobby' with a German sailor

  • A cartoon depicting Superior Council members meeting a Red Cross representative

  • Traffic signs painted in German and English in Bath Street

  • Food parcels from the Vega

  • Potatoes were grown on People's Park for extra food

  • A German flies over the Pomme d'Or Hotel

  • Jersey and Guernsey Bailiffs Alexander Coutanche and Victor Carey met on 28 December 1944 to discuss Red Cross supplies from the Vega

  • The Vega in St Helier Harbour

  • The captain of the Vega meets German officials at Government House

  • The Vega reached Jersey at the end of 1944

  • The Germans insisted in searching Vega food parcels

  • The Vega docked in St Helier Harbour

  • The Vega rady to unload her vital cargo

  • Red Cross supplies are unloaded from the Vega

  • Queuing to collect Vega parcels

  • Unloading the Vega

  • The funeral of two RAF officers in 1943

  • The Jersey Electricity Company power station

  • Compulsory sign in a shop owned by Jews

  • La Pulente Hotel stripped of all wood

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Deportation Gallery

  • An ‘’Evening Post’’ deportation notice

  • Schloss Wurzach, a German camp where many Channel Islanders were interned

  • Wurzach

  • Biberach

  • Ravensbruck camp

  • Laufen painted by an American PoW

  • Dennis Phillips, a Jerseyman interned at Wurzach

  • Channel Island internees at Laufen

  • The women’s barracks at Biberach

  • The Biberach camp ‘orchestra’

  • Biberach camp

  • An internee’s impressions of Biberach camp

  • A drawing of a Biberach dormitory by an internee

  • Ravensbruch camp

  • Laufen 1943

  • Laufen 1943

  • Room seniors at Laufen 1943

  • Schloss Wurzach, an imposing German schloss which housed many Channel Island internees

  • An inter-island football match at Biberach in 1943

  • Roll call at Buchenwald concentration camp

  • An ‘Evening Post’ notice regarding escapes from the island

  • A dreaded deportation order

  • A memorial at Gorey to two American officers who escaped

  • The stark corridors at Biberach

  • Biberach camp

  • Maurice Gould, who died in Wittlich prison

  • Shot while attempting to escale

  • Shot while attempting to escape

  • The memorial to a failed escape attempt by three Jersey teenagers

  • An ‘Evening Post’ notice requiring the surrender of wirelesses

  • A lifetime campaigning on behalf of his companion

  • A notice regarding the execution of a French escaper

  • Spanish forced worker Francisco Font

  • Russian Fedor Buriy

  • Plaque commemorating Bob Le Sueur's actions

  • Bob Le Sueur

  • Forced workers

  • Peter Painter

  • Norman Le Brocq

  • Francis Le Sueur

  • Clifford Queree

  • George Wakeham

  • Marcel Rossi

  • June Sinclair

  • John Nicolle

  • Joe Tierney

  • Harold Le Druillenec

  • Evelyn Drelaud

  • Esther Lloyd

  • Edward Fox

  • Annie Ross

  • Walter Dauny

  • William Marsh

  • Frederick Paige

  • George Fox

  • Frank de Villio

  • Edward Muels

  • Emile Paisnel

  • Clarence Painter

  • Canon Cohu

  • Arthur Dimmery

  • Advocate Ogier

  • James Houillebecq

  • Jack Soyer

  • Forced workers on Grouville Common by Fort Henry

  • Forced workers

  • Forced workers

  • A forced worker hidden in a Jersey house

  • A plaque to Stella Perkins

  • Olga Perkins

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  • Louisa Gould

  • Juan Taule

  • Gordon Prigent

  • The ovens at Buchenwald, discovered when the camp was liberated in 1945

  • Albert Bedane

  • A newspaper article highlighting Albert Bedane's bravery

  • A Russian forced worker and the woman who saved him

  • Wittlich Prison

  • Mary Richardson, who was hidden by Albert Bedane

Liberation gallery

  • Liberating troops on their way to the Channel Islands

  • Liberation, and German troops are taken away to PoW camps

  • German surrender on HMS Bulldog

  • Brigadier Snow, who led the Liberation forces

  • A queue to exchange notes at a bank after Liberation

  • Colonel Robinson addresses the excited crowd in the Royal Square

  • The jubilant crowd at the Weighbridge

  • Some of the British Liberation forces

  • The bodies of US servicemen ready to leave the island in 1946

  • A parade of Liberation troops in 1945

  • One year on, and People's Park is the venue for Liberation Day celebrations in 1946

  • Excited young ladies in the crowd at West Park celebrate the Liberation

  • The crowds at West Park on Liberation Day

  • A long queue outside Lloyds bank as residents try to change their Reichsmarks

  • Brigadier snow and senior British officers inspect a German installation

  • Colonel Robinson addresses the crowd in the Royal Square

  • Bailiff Alexander Coutanche heads out to HMS Bulldog

  • The Empire Day parade on Victoria Avenue

  • Crowds watch the Empire Day parade on 24 May 1945

  • Empire Day

  • German officers arrive in Southampton as Prisoners of War

  • German guns are taken away to be dumped at sea

  • Outside the Pomme d'Or Hotel

  • Outside the Pomme d'Or Hotel

  • Liberating troops being conducted through St Helier by a Jersey policeman

  • Liberating troops

  • Freed forced workers

  • A German officer now a prisoner of war

  • The scene at West Park as British troops and their equipment are landed

  • A house decorated to celebrate freedom

  • German prisoners of war march dejectedly towards their ejection from the island

  • German prisoners await their turn to board landing craft

  • The Royal Square was crowded on 8 May for Churchill's speech

  • Crowds outside the Pomme d'Or Hotel

  • Lines of German prisoners wait to leave the island

  • German prisoners embark on a landing craft

  • Lines of Germans waiting on the beach

  • Prisoners of War being transferred from the shore in landing craft

  • Prisoners of War in a landing craft

  • The Prinses Josephine Charlotte, which took Germans to England

  • The King and Queen arrive in Jersey

  • The King and Queen tour the island

  • Queen Elizabeth in Jersey

  • A memorial service to honour the bravery of Francois Scornet

  • Brigadier Snow, Darvall and Colonel Robinson

  • Brigadier Snow in the Royal Square on 12 May

  • German soldiers were supervised in the clearing of mines after the Liberation

  • French tanks lined up on the Circus Field at Millbrook, ready to be sent back to France

  • Surrender ceremony on HMS Bulldog

  • German helmest abandoned in a tunnel

  • The 12 May 1945 ceremonies in the Royal Square

  • The first two British officers to arrive on shore, Capt Ronald McDonald and Lieut David Milne

  • Capt Ronald McDonald and Lieut David Milne arrive in the harbour

  • Field Marshal Montgomery.s visit in 1947

  • German prisoners of war landed at Southampton

  • German rail lines being removed at the Weighbridge

Miscellaneous gallery

  • Bailiff Alexander Coutanche was required to meet arriving Germans at the Airport

  • Bombs damaged buildings at the Weighbridge in the German air raid of June 140

  • Families waited at the harbour for the chance to evacuate

  • Large numbers tried to evacuate but some could not find room on ships

  • Young and old left their island home to escape the occupation

  • French reservists leave Jersey after the outbreak of war

  • Poles are erected on Victoria Avenue to prevent enemy gliders landing

  • A 1939 air raid precautions team

  • A former lifeboat took part in the St Malo evacuation

  • Jersey vessels were sent to help allied troops evacuate from St Malo

  • Letter of regret from King George VI

  • Islanders queue to register for evacuation

  • Painting a white cross in the Royal Square in 1940 signifying acceptance of surrender terms

  • Island officials were required to be at the Airport to meet arriving troops

  • A panel from the Occupation Tapestry

  • A panel from the Occupation Tapestry

  • A panel from the Occupation Tapestry

  • A panel from the Occupation Tapestry

  • A panel from the Occupation Tapestry

  • A panel from the Occupation Tapestry

  • A panel from the Occupation Tapestry

  • A panel from the Occupation Tapestry

  • A panel from the Occupation Tapestry

  • A panel from the Occupation Tapestry

  • A panel from the Occupation Tapestry

  • A panel from the Occupation Tapestry

  • A party in NW England for evacuee children

  • The Vega at St Peter Port

  • The D-Day landings

  • A notice controlling the price of fresh fruit and vegetables

  • The WW2 Roll of Honour is placed in Jersey's cenotaph in 1982

  • Filling sandbags at West Park in 1940 in anticipation of German air raids

  • An Evening Post newsbill in November 1939 sums up the international situation

  • Visitors leave the island in 1939 after the outbreak of war

  • The funeral in 1945 of Francois Scornet, executed during the Occupation by the Germans

  • Pierson day was celebrated in 1939 with a big parade in the Royal Square

  • Soldiers on leave from France in 1940 with their families

  • Field Marshall Lord Montgomery visits Jersey in 1947

  • Militia manoeuvres in 1939

  • The Island Militia colours return with great ceremony in 1946

  • Saluting the return of the Island Militia colours in 1946

  • German guns dumped over the cliff at Les Landes in 1946

  • The large bunker at Gorey Harbour was finally demolished in 1972 to create a coach park

  • Cars abandoned by evacuees at Springfield

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