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Mrs Stella Le Tissier interviewed by Margaret Le Cras 25/4/05

I鈥︹�︹��. You would have had the curfew, wouldn鈥檛 you?
Mrs Le Tissier. The curfew was at nine o鈥檆lock in the Winter, and ten o鈥檆lock in the Summer, and in the midsummer, eleven o鈥檆lock, but you didn鈥檛 have to be out after. We sort of sat outside perhaps in our gardens, but you weren鈥檛 allowed on the roads or anything. There was nothing. When my husband used to come, and we were courting, he had to go home to be home at eleven o鈥檆lock, in the daylight. Coming 鈥� he lived in Retot Road, and by the time he got here, he said at Vazon and all that way there was barricades, and they let him through, and sometimes they asked for his identity card, to know who he was,
I鈥︹�︹��. The closer he got to Vazon, the more the Germans would have recognised him, probably?
Mrs Le Tissier. That鈥檚 it, but it was always different ones. At the beginning as well 鈥� this is so funny 鈥� There were so many restrictions, but we can honestly say, the Germans didn鈥檛 molest us. They left us alone, but we were, like, rats in a trap. We respected the Germans, and when they asked us anything, we replied, - I was seventeen, well, you know, a young girl, seventeen, anyway, we respected them, and they left us alone. The never molested us, but when they asked us, which direction to go, we were a bit naughty, oh yes, 鈥淵ou go that way鈥� and then it wasn鈥檛. Nicht 鈥� that鈥檚 all I know in German 鈥淭hat way 鈥� go鈥�. They went that way 鈥� but they were supposed to go [the other] that way. That was our little part in the war! One of the things they did, as soon as they came, at that time, there was no dogs on leads, none at all, but they made the order that all dogs were to be on leads but there weren鈥檛 many dogs. But there was one family near home, and they used to go hunting on top of Pleinmont. Rabbit shooting. And when we were going to Chapel one Sunday morning, Dad and I, this gentlemen said to my dad, 鈥淎lbert, what do you think, we must put leads on the dogs now, what will they do next, they will be leading us on a lead鈥�, but they didn鈥檛, you know. But it was so funny, you know.
I鈥︹�︹��. People wouldn鈥檛 have put dogs on leads, dogs would have been allowed to roam, eh?
Mrs Le Tissier. That鈥檚 it, you see, and, I suppose. Due respect to what they were putting mines all over the place, and the dogs would go on the mines and would be killed. Because I think they really liked animals, you know, they were like us, they were human.

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