Protest, defiance and resistance in the Channel Islands : German occupation, 1940-45 / Gilly Carr, Paul Sanders and Louise Willmot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carr, Gilly, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Sanders, Paul, editor.

Willmot, Louise, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Channel Islands.

World War, 1939-1945.

Channel Islands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.

Channel Islands.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Nazi occupation of Europe of World War Two is acknowledged as a defining juncture and an important identity-building experience throughout contemporary Europe. Resistance is what 'saves' European societies from an otherwise chequered record of collaboration on the part of their economic, political, cultural and religious elites. Opposition took pride of place as a legitimizing device in the post-war order and has since become an indelible part of the collective consciousness. Yet there is one exception to this trend among previously occupied territories: the British Channel Islands. Collective identity construction in the islands still relies on the notion of 'orderly and correct relations' with the Germans, while talk of 'resistance' earns raised eyebrows. The general attitude to the many witnesses of conscience who existed in the islands remains ambiguous. This book conversely and expertly argues that there was in fact resistance against the Germans in the Channel Islands and is the first text to fully explore the complex relationship that existed between the Germans and the people of the only part of the British Isles to experience occupation

Contents:

Symbolic resistance

Gilly Carr

The V-sign campaign and the fear of reprisals

Radio days

Paul Sanders

Humanitarian resistance: help to Jews and ot workers

Louise Willmot

Defiance and deportations

Institutional resistance: political groups, clergy and doctors

Women and resistance

Sabotage, intelligence-gathering and escape

The peculiarities of being under the swastika and the crown: officials and their resistance

Economic resistance and sabotage

Heritage, memory and resistance in the Channel Islands

Gilly Carr.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-365) and index.

ISBN:

9781474210874

1474210872

9781472508133

1472508130

OCLC:

1154966620