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originally posted by: Mike Stivic
a reply to: MerkabaTribeEntity
I don't have much to add, but I wanted you know I appreciate the work you put into this!
Especially the extra work you put in pulling up recent pictures to compare with.
Looking at the contrast it hit me how misleading black and white photos can be..
Everything just seems dark and dingy depressing, then you put up the recent pics, and
And It helps me picture those old buildings not painted in various shades of grey..
Sry if that made no sense.
originally posted by: Mike Stivic
a reply to: MerkabaTribeEntity
...Looking at the contrast it hit me how misleading black and white photos can be..
Everything just seems dark and dingy depressing, then you put up the recent pics, and It helps me picture those old buildings not painted in various shades of grey..
These next two images show lines of German prisoners as they wait to leave the island
originally posted by: manuelram16
FYI there was a movie made with that scenario....
- Linky
During the war, Louisa - together with her sister, Ivy Forster, and brother Harold Le Druillenec, - decided to hide an escaped Russian prisoner of war. They named him Bill. However, their bravery was met with betrayal and Louisa's secret was discovered by the Nazi's.
As punishment for their 'crime', both Louisa and her husband Harold were sent to concentration camps. Louisa was gassed in Ravensbruck months before the camps' liberation and Harold was the sole British survivor of Bergen-Belsen.
[..] At nearly 97 years of age, Bob Le Sueur MBE, is one of a few Occupation survivors who was an adult at the time of Nazi rule on the Island.
Speaking about her brave decision to shelter Bill, Mr Le Sueur clearly recalls the conversation he had with Louisa.
He said: “She had this Russian who had escaped from a terrible camp and he was starving, had scars all over his body from beatings and she took him in and her words to me were ‘I had to do something for Another Mother’s Son.’”
“She took him in, she bathed his wounds, she altered her dead son’s clothes to fit him, she gave him affection, maternal love and in the end the poor lady suffered for it. She got found out because eventually neighbours must have spotted this man going in and out- they knew it was not one of her sons.”
- From Liberation to Coronation
[..] In the immediate post-war years, a certain amount of ‘tidying-up’ that had to be done after the last Liberation troops had gone home. A call was made for an official inquiry into how the island government had conducted itself under German rule but was rejected.
[..] The States set about a slum clearance programme in order to reduce the level of infant mortality.
originally posted by: MerkabaTribeEntity
originally posted by: manuelram16
FYI there was a movie made with that scenario....
Sorry for the late reply, I've been trying to convince my daughter to go to bed, lol.
I think I might know the film you're talking about. The new one about Louisa Gould? If so, she was a local legend, still is.
For those interested, I'll share excerpts from a local article discussing the story and the film;
- Linky
During the war, Louisa - together with her sister, Ivy Forster, and brother Harold Le Druillenec, - decided to hide an escaped Russian prisoner of war. They named him Bill. However, their bravery was met with betrayal and Louisa's secret was discovered by the Nazi's.
As punishment for their 'crime', both Louisa and her husband Harold were sent to concentration camps. Louisa was gassed in Ravensbruck months before the camps' liberation and Harold was the sole British survivor of Bergen-Belsen.
[..] At nearly 97 years of age, Bob Le Sueur MBE, is one of a few Occupation survivors who was an adult at the time of Nazi rule on the Island.
Speaking about her brave decision to shelter Bill, Mr Le Sueur clearly recalls the conversation he had with Louisa.
He said: “She had this Russian who had escaped from a terrible camp and he was starving, had scars all over his body from beatings and she took him in and her words to me were ‘I had to do something for Another Mother’s Son.’”
“She took him in, she bathed his wounds, she altered her dead son’s clothes to fit him, she gave him affection, maternal love and in the end the poor lady suffered for it. She got found out because eventually neighbours must have spotted this man going in and out- they knew it was not one of her sons.”
The film in question is called 'Another Mother's Son'.
Here's the trailer for those interested
There are many such stories from the occupation. Other kinds of stories include locals stealing German fuel and food, stealing and storing German weapons and ammunition (some of which was still being found when I was a child), and building and sharing crystal radios. All of which could easily get someone shipped off to a concentration camp.