Facebook post #012 (9 May 2020)
While VE Day was being celebrated 75 years ago yesterday, the swastika was still flying over the government buildings in Jersey. My relatives still had to carry German ID cards. This on British soil – closer than York to where I live now. There were severe punishments for those caught with illicit radio sets, or milling illicit flour to feed the islanders. Forced labour had been used to build a giant underground hospital, now believed to be a gas chamber intended for the undesirables of the British mainland. Happily, that flag was lowered 75 years ago TODAY, and the Channel Islands were liberated from the jack boot.
