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Title:THE GERMAN OCCUPATION OF JERSEY 1940-45 [Main Title]
Film Number:MGH 4115
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Summary: Amateur film shot by a Jersey housewife, Mrs Olive Thompson, includes shots of German soldiers exercising on Havre-des-Pas Sands and marching past Charing Cross and the Town Hall in St Helier, and coverage of the Liberation of this Channel Island (crowds in Royal Square listening to Churchill broadcast and the Bailiff Sir Alex Coutanche, German prisoners, RN and USN vessels off Millbrook Sands, unloading of International Red Cross supplies from Vega, liberation of Algerian prisoners of war, a Russian prisoner of war wearing USSR armband, Colonel Robinson hoisting Union Jack over Pomme d'Or Hotel, visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth).