Nazi Prisons in the British Isles: political prisoners during the German Occupation of Jersey and Guernsey 1940-1945

January 7, 2021
This is a welcome addition to the literature on confinement, a topic that has developed from a little-studied phenomenon into one of most vibrant areas within the subdiscipline of Conflict Archaeology. Gilly Carr has been a part of this through her work on the Channel Islands during the Second World War. She has been investigating Lager Wick, a forced labour camp on Jersey, and has many publications on the impact of WWII on the Channel Islands. This new book examines the prisons used by the Occupation forces to imprison Channel Islanders who were considered to be political threats. Some of these people (men and women) had committed criminal acts of sabotage, theft of military materials, p

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