EARLY FORTIFICATIONS SPECIAL – ISLANDS AT WAR PODCAST! PART ONE

You can find the Podcast at Islands at War on your favourite podcast app or listen in the player below.

Following a number of questions around the fortification of the Channel Islands we were keen to talk about early fortifications.

In the show we deal with everything from the start to late 1941! Basically everything pre-Atlantic wall.

We talk a bit about early Kommandandt’s, early fortifications and the obsession with holding the Channel Islands despite there being no strategic value. A few pictures below.

Personalities: Major-Doctor Albrecht Lanz, the first Kommandant of Guernsey (centre), with his chief of staff Major-Doctor Maass (left) and Leutnant Mueller. Copyright IWM
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Photograph taken surreptitiously from an upstairs window by Frank le Page showing commandeered French Renault tanks moving along La Rue Cauchee in St Martin’s, Guernsey, after Hitler’s decision to fortify the islands in 1941. © IWM HU 25951
Renault FT-17 turret at Batterie Dollman. Photograph © Nick Le Huray
The book we mentioned about the Spaniards that fought in the British Army.

If you want to email in a question send it to occupied@gnetradio.com. 

Thanks to Gnet Radio for recording the podcast and thanks to Jim Delbridge for the use of his song ‘5 to 7’ as our theme.

Author: Nick Le Huray 🇬🇬

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

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