It only takes the opening notes of the theme tune to 1963 classic film The Great Escape for most people to conjure up images of the lives of prisoners of wars – and their escapes – during World War II ...
When the Germans surrendered in May 1945, ending World War Two in Europe, most of the soldiers stationed in Jersey were shipped away to prison camps in Britain. They left behind countless objects as a ...
Edited transcription from a taped interview with John De Jersey What I haven’t said so far, I think it was about 1942 we had two — they came round to billet —Germans in our house, we were forced to ...
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