WW2 is said to be the deadliest conflict so far in human history. The Second World War happened during the year of 1939 and 1945. The majority of the world’s countries where involved in the battle, involving over 100 million people. This threw the world completely, turning everything upside down and into chaos. This war also included the Holocaust, which relates to the German occupation that happened in the channel island, along with the rest of the world. World War Two ended up changing political alignment and global social structure as certain countries began to gain more power than others and felt they could control.
The Germans were clever about their approach to the Channel Islands, as before it began, they sent the German soldiers over in planes, where they began to machine gun and drop bombs onto the island. Two days later they invaded the Channel Islands, they were sent across the French coast and began attacking from the harbour located in St Helier on the 28th of June, along with this on the same day aircraft where arriving and landing nearby to La Rocque Harbour. From the moment the Germans landed and entered they had already killed 9 people.
The following words are from a man called Ralph Mollet and what he saw when the German’s began to invade Jersey Channel Islands – ‘Before this all even happened, two days prior the attack German planes has been flying over the Channel Islands, machine gunning which killed a man on his doorstep. Two bombs where then dropped by Mount Bingham also killing people who where nearby. They set many boats on fire along with Fort Regent’
The German occupation of the Channel Islands lasted for most of the Second World War, where during this period, thousands of islanders were evacuated from their homes to the main land to find safer places, whilst the man stayed to fight against the Germans and protect their island. Until the 9th May 1945 where the Channel Islands became liberated and shoulders where welcomed home by the Jersey community, as crowds gathered in the town centre.
