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Eileen May de Mouilpied interviewed at the Guille-Alles Library by Becky Kendall of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Guernsey, 5/2/2005. Transcribed and Edited by John David, November 2005

The North Cinema, we used to go every Saturday morning, and we used to go at the North Cinema, and the Germans was one side, and we were the other, and we remember seeing all the Laurel and Hardy films, all in German, we used to see the pictures, like, you know, and the Germans was one side and was the other. Most Saturday mornings.
I………. Do you think that there were hostilities between the local people who stayed here and the German soldiers? I mean, you were living here with them for five years? To what extent did you just get on and leave separate lives?
These young, I mean there were a lot of people that were very friendly with the Germans, and at the end, there were some living up the road, and they knew us, and they used to give us a few sweets. Like my mum said, there was good and bad ones, it was somebody’s child, that’s how she looked at it. The OTs were the bosses, the ordinary Germans just had to do what they were told, there were some very friendly. I really didn’t take much notice, like I say, going to school, and seeing all the houses with all the barbed wire aroud them, that’s where they were living, apart from that, we made friends with a few, like, they used to come in, a lot of people did their washing for them, and that, but like I say, I was only between five and ten.

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