ISLANDS AT WAR PODCAST ā€“ JANUARY 1941

December 1940. Search ā€˜Islands At Warā€™ in your favourite podcast app or go here to listen.

In this episode we deal with:

  • Lack of vitamin A causes concern
  • Pigeons banned!
  • FortificationsĀ  ā€“ a brief overview
  • Islanders banned fro a large portion of the coast.
  • Depression and other illnessesĀ 
  • Postage issuesĀ 
  • Red Cross Letters

Below you can find a few of the items that we talked about:

Notice published in the Guernsey Evening Press
Letter about Parsnip Coffee and anagrams ā€“ published in Guernsey Evening Press 16 January 1941
Copyright Ā© Channel Islands Specialistsā€™ Society 2024. All Rights Reserved.
Notice published in the Guernsey Evening Press
Ā Deutsche Guernsey Zeitung (DGZ)Ā was a daily news sheet for the German occupying forces, published by the Guernsey Press. Although Jersey had already had a forces newspaper published in the same way since 1940, known asĀ Deutsche Inselzeitung, theĀ DGZĀ was not launched until 4 July 1942; it was produced daily until 24 March 1945.

If you want to email in a question send it to occupied@gnetradio.com.Ā  Alternatively you can send us a text with the link at the bottom of these notes (only works with iPhones).Ā 

Thanks to Gnet Radio for recording the podcast and thanks to Jim Delbridge for the use of his song ā€˜5 to 7ā€™ as our theme.

Author: Nick Le Huray šŸ‡¬šŸ‡¬

Guernsey based amateur historian. Interested in the Occupation of the Channel Islands and wider Second World War history.

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