Showing posts with label Channel Islands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Channel Islands. Show all posts

Tuesday, 26 April 2016

War on a daily basis - moral gap. Luftwaffe on the Channel Islands

Pictures illustrate an article Corey Charlton for MailOnline: 'And here's one of me at the harbor in just bombed': Amazing pictures show German Luftwaffe crew posing for holiday snaps on Jersey Their days after air raid killed 44.


German pilot Gefreiter Ernst Ostheimer poses for a photograph by the sea on the newly conquered island of Jersey in July 1940

Saturday, 20 February 2016

Two RAF airmen are buried with full military honors by occupying German soldiers, Channel Islands, 1943

Article taken from a site: Real historical photo... 

"Full military honors were granted by the Luftwaffe at the funerals of R.A.F Sergeants Butlin and Holden who were shot down over Jersey, Channel Islands. It is thought this was to try and pacify the local population. The Luftwaffe behaved much differently than the SS or Wehrmacht. Much more chivalry.