Hello everyone, and thank you once again for listening to the saga of World War II,

a Cassus belly project. This episode is another appendix in which I interviewed the creator

of the documentary in Tony's footsteps, Carl Timms, about the German occupation of the Channel

Islands during the Second World War. The Channel Islands are the few small islands that lie

off the Norman coast of France, the two

largest being Guernsey and Jersey.

The islands are essentially old feudal remnants of the Duchy of Normandy from all the way

back when William the Conqueror first conquered the Kingdom of England.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the interview, and if you're interested in seeing the documentary,

the details of how to do so are at the end of the episode.

So let's begin Appendix C in Tony's footsteps and interview with Carl Tim's.

Okay. So, Carl, thanks for being on the show. I guess first thing I want to ask you is just to give me a little background about yourself and how you got interested in this particular topic and why you decided to make the documentary in Tony's footsteps about the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands.

Yeah, thank you, Sean.

Well, first of, I'd just like to say thanks for having me on the show.

It's, yeah, I really appreciate the opportunity.

So, yeah, it's yeah I really appreciate the opportunity so um yeah it's uh

basically quite a personal uh it was quite a personal story I guess in the sense that

uh I grew up in Guernsey um so sort of born and raised I live in the UK now but um

most of my family is still over there and And actually, my granddad lived through the

Nazi occupation. So he had sort of first-hand account of what it was like during those years.

He was a teenager. And as was the case with a lot of the people when we made the film,

it was mostly sort of people that were children, teenagers, not sort of

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