“I could have watched another hour of this series, which offered an interesting anecdote every two minutes”

Britain Under The Nazis

Britain Under the Nazis: The Forgotten Occupation, Channel 4

“The documentary evoked well the islanders’ disbelief when the Nazis arrived, the surreality of seeing them seize buildings and lower the Union flag. And also how people responded differently. I could have watched another hour of this series, which offered an interesting anecdote every two minutes.”
Carol Midgley, The Times

“What Britain Under the Nazis did so well was to show in the process why so many of these stories are unheard: there is deep, abiding shame and corrosive recriminations for what happened in Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney when the Germans came in 1940. The programme confronted the source of that shame head-on, with an astutely curated cast of islanders, all of whom wrote fulsomely and eloquently.”
Benji Wilson, The Telegraph

 

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