Islanders recall defying German troops as boys during Channel Islands Occupation

• Two islanders have shared their Liberation stories of schoolboy defiance

For those islanders who grew up during the 1940s, the occupation was all they knew.

Many still have fond memories of their small acts of schoolboy defiance against the Nazis, although some of the things they remember can be frightening at times.

"We raided one or two bunkers but this one my brother decided to do it solo, blackening his face, he took what tools he needed and avoided the guards, forced the lock and went down the bunker and took various things.

"He got back into the hotel, got up to his bedroom, took all his things off, looked at what he'd managed to get; cigarettes, chocolate and so on, for us in the morning and suddenly realised he'd left his penknife in this bunker with his name clearly inscribed on the side."

"So, he had to put on all his stuff again, in the early hours of the morning and go along and open up the padlock he had managed to fasten and get down without being caught and back home again twice in the same night."

Two friends Leo and John were once given sweets by a German soldier, they put them in their mouths to look like they were eating them but had read stories in comics of Nazi soldiers poisoning children with sweets so they spat the sweets out into a drain when the soldiers couldn't see.

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