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The resistance to German occupation of the Channel Islands took many forms. From the start of the Second World War until June 1940, many Channel Islanders left the Islands to join the armed forces in England or to work in associated war industries. There was just enough time for the authorities to organise evacuations from the Islands once occupation seemed inevitable. In total 17,000 from Guernsey, 6,600 from Jersey and all the 1,400 on Alderney travelled to England. Many of the adults then joining into the war work. This would inevitably have reduced the number of potential active resistors remaining in the Islands when the Germans landed on 30 June 1940.〔 Many stories of resistance will fade with passing time, it was not something anyone wanted to record at the time and witnesses are few and far between, however the many diaries that have now been published include a number of examples of resistance. Scholar Louise Willmot said that the percentage of the population actively resisting German occupation in other European countries was 0.6 to 3 percent and that the percentage of the islander population participating in acts of active resistance was comparable. From a wartime population of 66,000 in the Channel Islands 〔Willmot, Louise, (May 2002) ''The Goodness of Strangers: Help to Escaped Russian Slave Labourers in Occupied Jersey, 1942-1945," ''Contemporary European History'', Vol. 11, No. 2, p. 214. Downloaded from JSTOR.〕 a total of around 4000 islanders were sentenced for breaking laws (around 2600 in Jersey and 1400 in Guernsey), although many of these were for criminal acts rather than resistance; 570 prisoners were sent to continental prisons and camps, and at least 22 persons from Jersey and 9 from Guernsey did not return.〔 Willmott estimated that over 200 people in Jersey provided material and moral support to escaped forced workers, including over 100 who were involved in the network of safe houses sheltering escapees.〔 ==Escapees== A total of 225 islanders, such as Peter Crill, escaped from the islands to England or France: 150 from Jersey, and 75 from Guernsey.〔 Five boats leaving Guernsey the day after the occupation started.〔 The number of escapes increased after D-Day, when conditions in the islands worsened as supply routes to the continent were cut off and the desire to join in the liberation of Europe increased. In May 1942, three youngsters, Peter Hassall, Maurice Gould, and Denis Audrain, attempted to escape from Jersey in a boat (Audrain drowned, Hassall and Gould were imprisoned in Germany, where Gould died). Following this escape attempt, restrictions on small boats and watercraft were introduced, restrictions were imposed on the ownership of photographic equipment (the boys had been carrying photographs of fortifications with them), and radios were confiscated from the population. Once the Cherbourg peninsular was in allied hands, an "easier" escape route became possible. Amongst those heading to France were two American officers, Captain Ed Clark and Lieutenant George Haas on 8 January 1945, escaped from their prisoner of war camp in St. Helier, assisted by local residents and in particular Deputy W.J. Bertram BEM, of East Lynne, Fauvic, they successfully avoided recapture by the German forces. On the night of 19 January 1945 they removed a small boat from Gorey harbour and 15 hours later after an arduous crossing in bad weather, landed near Carteret on the French Cotentin Peninsula. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Resistance to German occupation of the Channel Islands」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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