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We had Mrs. Tait the German lady who taught us German. She was married to an Englishman and they were really holding a gun to her head because if she didn’t do what she was told, to teach the Guernsey children German her husband would have been deported, you see, because he was an Englishman, and there was another bargain there.

She was very good, and she was actually very pro-British. We used to collect these leaflets once they started being dropped, stuff our bags full of them and take them to school, although that was against the rules and we were threatened with a caning if we got caught. She used to come into the class for a German lesson and she used to say ‘Anybody got any news today?’ and somebody would produce a leaflet from their desk, and she would read it and translate it as she went along, you know, all about the Normandy landings and what was going on and all that. Then if we heard somebody at the door, schiff, schiff, she would sit on it.
ARTHUR KLEIN

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