Ep 1: The Deportation Order: Hitler’s Retaliation

Podcast: The Guernsey Deportees (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Ep 1: The Deportation Order: Hitler’s RetaliationPub date: 2025-04-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization⚡ In 1942, during the height of World War 2, Hitler ordered the deportation of more than a thousand islanders from Guernsey. In retaliation against the Allied Forces, innocent men, women and children were forced to leave their island homes - set on a path to Biberach internment camp.💡 Jill Chubb was just 3 years old when she set sail, but her memories are vivid and clear. And in this special podcast series, her grandson, former BBC Guernsey presenter Ollie Guillou, charts her story - joined by three other deportees and two prominent historians.🔎 This first episode explores the moments leading up to the deportation, and how the Guernsey Deportees found out the news. We get a sense of pre-war life in Guernsey and how it began to change during the course of the war. And from cargo ships to train rides, we learn how the journey to Biberach began.⚙️ With special thanks to:Jill Chubb, Chair of the Guernsey Deportees AssociationRalph Godwin, DeporteeJanet de Santos, DeporteeJill Oliver, DeporteeAlan Chubb, Secretary of the Guernsey Deportees AssociationDr Gilly Carr, University of CambridgeMatthew Lucas, War historian📍 Written and produced by Ollie Guillou and Phillippa Guillou. This is a Channel Islands Podcasts production.✉️ Share your messages and memories; email [email protected] podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Channel Islands Podcasts, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.