Channel Islands

Very interesting program.

All of it is themed on the mistaken assumption that the Germans were poised to invade Britain even though everyone knows today (and Churchill knew then) that Operation Sea Lion was nothing more than a bluff and that the Kriegsmarine was not anywhere nearly powerful enough to invade Albion. Churchill could therefore confidently rebuff German peace offers even though he assumed that the United States would have to bail them out regardless.

Of course the documentary tries to make it heartwarming with only the usual propaganda ─ Soviet subhumans worked to death building the Atlantic Wall, and two island woman gassed, one at Auschwitz and the other at Ravensbruck. After D-Day the island got cut off and Churchill tried to starve them out. At least they point out that the German garrison never stole food from the islanders, even if Churchill held up their Red Cross packages.

When I think of the German occupation of the Channel Islands I can hardly help but think of the 1971 Disney musical film that we were shown endlessly in school ─  Bedknobs and Broomsticks, with Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson ─ which has the Nazis occupying an English coastal town and being thwarted by kids and amateur witchcraft.