Hello and welcome to We Are History recording during lockdown with me, John O'Farrell.

And me, Angela Barnes. Sorry, these lockdown episodes, I start all of them laughing because we have to count backwards from five before we start.

John and I are so bad at doing that.

It makes me laugh every time.

It's hard.

I can't remember which number comes next.

We're very clever people, John.

Why can't we count backwards from five in time with each other?

My maths O level doesn't stretch that far.

What are we talking about today, Angela?

Today we are talking about.

It's a lull fest.

It is the German occupation of the Channel Islands in World War II.

1940 to 1945. Yes.

Now, lots of counterfactual books about what would have happened if Britain had succumbed to the Nazis.

Lots of airport books with swastikas flying over, Big Ben,

and lots of dodgy men at the airport, fingering them

and thinking about why they voted Brexit.

But, of course, one part of the UK did succumb to Nazis.

And today we're going to be looking at whether the Brits here

behaved any more heroically than other countries who suffered occupation, was the less collaboration, was the more than France, Holland, etc.

It's interesting, isn't it? Because obviously, it's the Crown dependency, aren't they, the Channel Islands?

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