Loved this, thank you! The human stories of love and compassion remind us to seek out Beauty even in the worst of times 🇬🇧♥️ just want to point out there was never a German occupation of any land under Churchill's governance! The channel islands, bless them, are self-governed, although they belong to the Crown ❤ Rule Brittania 🇬🇧
The head of the Gestapo on Jersey was asked if he ever had to torture any residents to get information on illegal activities to which he replied "" I only have to open my mail every morning to know exactly what is going on in this Island".
'Hitlers England', does this mean the Uk would have been broken up or is this just one of those things when people think Britain and England are the same?
On their way home from Dunkirk, for example? The solutions to most seemingly-horrible quandaries become self-evident and often simple when analyzed at a distance from the time and unburdened with so many persistent unfavorable realities, consequences, and the unknowns, as was often just normal in the midst of the largest war the world had ever experienced. 51:12
The narrator says at 4:38 "...raise their flag on English soil - at least, that's how the Germans knew it." That's probably the source of the video's title "Hitler's England" which is misleading unless you have noted that proviso "that's how the Germans knew it." Although the Islands are British, they are neither a part of Britain (Great Britain) which comprises solely England, Scotland and Wales, or the UK which adds Northern Ireland to those three countries. Only the TH-cam title refers wrongly to "Nazi-Occupied Islands", presumably for uninformed, dramatic effect. John Nettles and the narrator correctly adhere to "German occupied" throughout. The occupiers were Germans, only some of whom would have been Nazis, and their army was the German army, not the Nazi army. (See the Army's percentage composition below.) The misuse of Nazi appears to be a modern sanitisation of the truth, as if seeking to absolve Germany from its responsibility for the war and our occupation. In 1939, Britain declared war on Germany, not on the Nazis or their political party. (Chamberlain’s BBC broadcast was unequivocal: “This country is at war with Germany” - not the Conservatives at war with the Nazis.) In the Channel Islands, we have always referred to the German Occupation*, not the Nazi Occupation. Like France, we were occupied by Germany and Germans. We have German bunkers, German gun emplacements and German war tunnels, not Nazi bunkers etc. Not all Germans were Nazis and the words are not interchangeable. Historian Sir Richard Evans* (quoted in this article): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism_and_the_Wehrmacht#National_Socialists_within_the_armed_forces states that only a third of junior German army officers had become Nazi party members by 1941, whilst historian Omer Bartov is quoted in the same article as writing that the percentage in 1941 for senior officers was even less. In July 1940, (when those German officers arrived in the Islands), the proportions would, by implication, have been lower; although they increased as the war progressed. (Wikipedia may not always be reliable, but on this occasion it quotes reliable sources.) *Sir Richard Evans FBA, FRSL, FRHistS, was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University until he retired.
@@anushkasekkingstad1300 The occupation of the Channel Islands and the threatened occupation of the UK (not just England) wasn't Nazi occupation, it was German occupation. The occupiers were Germans, only some of whom would have been Nazis, and their army was the German army, not the Nazi army. (See the Army's percentage composition below.) The misuse of Nazi appears to be a modern sanitisation of the truth, as if seeking to absolve Germany from its responsibility for the war and our occupation. In 1939, Britain declared war on Germany, not on the Nazis or their political party. (Chamberlain’s BBC broadcast was unequivocal: “This country is at war with Germany” - not the Conservatives at war with the Nazis.) In the Channel Islands, we have always referred to the German Occupation*, not the Nazi Occupation. Like France, we were occupied by Germany and Germans. We have German bunkers, German gun emplacements and German war tunnels, not Nazi bunkers etc. Not all Germans were Nazis and the words are not interchangeable. Historian Sir Richard Evans* (quoted in this article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism_and_the_Wehrmacht#National_Socialists_within_the_armed_forces ) states that only a third of junior German army officers had become Nazi party members by 1941, whilst historian Omer Bartov is quoted in the same article as writing that the percentage in 1941 for senior officers was even less. In July 1940, (when those German officers arrived in the Islands), the proportions would, by implication, have been lower; although they increased as the war progressed. (Wikipedia may not always be reliable, but on this occasion it quotes reliable sources.) *Sir Richard Evans FBA, FRSL, FRHistS, was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University until he retired.
@@CLARKE176 Geographically they are indeed part of the British Isles, as are the Republic of Ireland and the Isle of Man. Good luck standing in an Irish pub trying to tell Dubliners that they’re British. You’re the first person I’ve ever heard refer to the “British Channel Islands”.
@@anushkasekkingstad1300 what’s Ireland got to with this conversation? The residents in the Channel Islands are British citizens, it was the only part of the British isles Germany conquered.
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A very good nugget of history and reflection. Thank you.
This should come up much earlier in searches! Great documentary!
Very enjoyable.
Loved this, thank you! The human stories of love and compassion remind us to seek out Beauty even in the worst of times 🇬🇧♥️ just want to point out there was never a German occupation of any land under Churchill's governance! The channel islands, bless them, are self-governed, although they belong to the Crown ❤
Rule Brittania 🇬🇧
The head of the Gestapo on Jersey was asked if he ever had to torture any residents to get information on illegal activities to which he replied "" I only have to open my mail every morning to know exactly what is going on in this Island".
Don’t know where you got that info but the gestapo weren’t in Jersey during the occupation.
@@mikeholt7087 It was on a documentary and yes the Gestapo were on Jersey
'Hitlers England', does this mean the Uk would have been broken up or is this just one of those things when people think Britain and England are the same?
Thats all of British property Hitler could get 😅 great content 🎉🎉🎉 awesome channel ❤
And how'd that property-flipping business work out for him 😉? Of course he wrote the losses off at others' expense.
The nazis never left they just changed their uniform 👮♂️
Who forgot this history?
. Why. didn't England defend the Channel Isles instead of fighting in Europe.That makes no sense whatsoever.
Nobody has ever accused the average Englishman of being remotely bright.
On their way home from Dunkirk, for example? The solutions to most seemingly-horrible quandaries become self-evident and often simple when analyzed at a distance from the time and unburdened with so many persistent unfavorable realities, consequences, and the unknowns, as was often just normal in the midst of the largest war the world had ever experienced. 51:12
You need to fix your title, its BRITAIN not England.
The threatened nazi occupation was directed entirely at England. That part of the title is perfectly correct.
@@anushkasekkingstad1300 Directed at Britain as a whole.
The narrator says at 4:38 "...raise their flag on English soil - at least, that's how the Germans knew it." That's probably the source of the video's title "Hitler's England" which is misleading unless you have noted that proviso "that's how the Germans knew it."
Although the Islands are British, they are neither a part of Britain (Great Britain) which comprises solely England, Scotland and Wales, or the UK which adds Northern Ireland to those three countries.
Only the TH-cam title refers wrongly to "Nazi-Occupied Islands", presumably for uninformed, dramatic effect. John Nettles and the narrator correctly adhere to "German occupied" throughout. The occupiers were Germans, only some of whom would have been Nazis, and their army was the German army, not the Nazi army. (See the Army's percentage composition below.)
The misuse of Nazi appears to be a modern sanitisation of the truth, as if seeking to absolve Germany from its responsibility for the war and our occupation.
In 1939, Britain declared war on Germany, not on the Nazis or their political party. (Chamberlain’s BBC broadcast was unequivocal: “This country is at war with Germany” - not the Conservatives at war with the Nazis.)
In the Channel Islands, we have always referred to the German Occupation*, not the Nazi Occupation. Like France, we were occupied by Germany and Germans. We have German bunkers, German gun emplacements and German war tunnels, not Nazi bunkers etc.
Not all Germans were Nazis and the words are not interchangeable.
Historian Sir Richard Evans* (quoted in this article): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism_and_the_Wehrmacht#National_Socialists_within_the_armed_forces
states that only a third of junior German army officers had become Nazi party members by 1941, whilst historian Omer Bartov is quoted in the same article as writing that the percentage in 1941 for senior officers was even less. In July 1940, (when those German officers arrived in the Islands), the proportions would, by implication, have been lower; although they increased as the war progressed. (Wikipedia may not always be reliable, but on this occasion it quotes reliable sources.)
*Sir Richard Evans FBA, FRSL, FRHistS, was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University until he retired.
@@anushkasekkingstad1300 The occupation of the Channel Islands and the threatened occupation of the UK (not just England) wasn't Nazi occupation, it was German occupation. The occupiers were Germans, only some of whom would have been Nazis, and their army was the German army, not the Nazi army. (See the Army's percentage composition below.)
The misuse of Nazi appears to be a modern sanitisation of the truth, as if seeking to absolve Germany from its responsibility for the war and our occupation.
In 1939, Britain declared war on Germany, not on the Nazis or their political party. (Chamberlain’s BBC broadcast was unequivocal: “This country is at war with Germany” - not the Conservatives at war with the Nazis.)
In the Channel Islands, we have always referred to the German Occupation*, not the Nazi Occupation. Like France, we were occupied by Germany and Germans.
We have German bunkers, German gun emplacements and German war tunnels, not Nazi bunkers etc.
Not all Germans were Nazis and the words are not interchangeable.
Historian Sir Richard Evans* (quoted in this article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism_and_the_Wehrmacht#National_Socialists_within_the_armed_forces ) states that only a third of junior German army officers had become Nazi party members by 1941, whilst historian Omer Bartov is quoted in the same article as writing that the percentage in 1941 for senior officers was even less. In July 1940, (when those German officers arrived in the Islands), the proportions would, by implication, have been lower; although they increased as the war progressed. (Wikipedia may not always be reliable, but on this occasion it quotes reliable sources.)
*Sir Richard Evans FBA, FRSL, FRHistS, was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University until he retired.
@@CLARKE176No nazi invasion was intended against any part of the UK but England.
The Channel Islands aren’t English or even British.
They are British hence the name British channel islands.
@@CLARKE176 What arrant nonsense. On no map will you find the island group designated as the “British Channel Islands”.
@@anushkasekkingstad1300 that’s what some people call them as they are part of the British isles.
@@CLARKE176 Geographically they are indeed part of the British Isles, as are the Republic of Ireland and the Isle of Man. Good luck standing in an Irish pub trying to tell Dubliners that they’re British. You’re the first person I’ve ever heard refer to the “British Channel Islands”.
@@anushkasekkingstad1300 what’s Ireland got to with this conversation? The residents in the Channel Islands are British citizens, it was the only part of the British isles Germany conquered.