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24/11/2011

New research is revealing valuable accounts of how Jersey residents defied their Nazi occupiers during the Second World War. Richard Uridge visits the island to find out more.

In the second of two programmes on the Channel Islands, Open Country visits Jersey to find out what it was like to live on the Island during the German occupation in World War 2. The Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles to be seized and for five years, residents lived under Nazi rule. Now a file of papers which spent decades stuffed in the back of a wardrobe has been found revealing graphic accounts of some of those who were deported to Germany after being caught in acts of resistance. Richard Uridge investigates why these accounts are only just coming to light.

Presenter: Richard Uridge
Producer : Anna Varle.

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27 minutes

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Sat 26 Nov 2011 06:07

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  • Thu 24 Nov 2011 15:00
  • Sat 26 Nov 2011 06:07

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