As Bob stated during the interview, they were aware that the liberation day was coming however they were unaware when. In order to keep up morale for while awaiting their liberation, they occasionally held parties using home made alcohol, usually to celebrate the end of availability to a particular resource such as gas or electricity. According to Bob there were many Russian and Polish harbored by locals, the locals would forge an identification card for the refugee and apply for a ration book. this would allow the refugee to eat without cutting into the local’s food supplies.

An example of one of these parties was the night that the gas supply was to be shut off. “Guests that haven’t properly eaten in a year, give them rabbit and calvados” calvados being a form of apple or pear brandy. The house at which this party was being hosted also happened to be harboring a Russian refugee who happened upon the calvados before the party was due to start. While he was locally believed to be Polish by the other jersey residents, his behavior that night showed off his true heritage as his songs and dance could be heard down the street. There was an incident during this time when a group of German soldiers could be seen walking down the street which resulted in the Russian being pinned down with a dish cloth in his mouth. Thankfully the Germans were chanting there own songs and thus were distracted from the racket.

Due to their use of crystal radio sets as well as the German section of the newspaper, they were aware of essential events to the war such as the fact that Berlin had fallen. Bob spoke of the Germans that had told locals that Hitler had died, although the news had perpetuated the lie that Hitler had died defending Berlin in spite of his less glamorous reality. Hitler had appointed a naval commander who hastily made an appointment to negotiate an armistice on may 7th, and on the 8th Europe was liberated followed by Jersey’s liberation the next day. The surrender of the channel islands was signed on a British destroyer off the coast of Jersey.