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Little Island. Big Story. #Theislandbreak Occupation and Liberation Trail Guide Download FREE Audio Trail Little island. Big story. #theislandbreak www.jersey.com Occupation and Liberation Trail Guide Occupation & Liberation Discovery Audio Trail Download the FREE Geotourist App on Apple iPhone or Android. Search Jersey to Occupation sites. listen to the Occupation & Liberation Discovery Audio Trail. Take a little glimpse at our big past by selecting your preferred trail. Simply press ‘START’ on the preferred trail summary to reveal the map of the location of the points. You can also use the ‘Route Little discoveries. Big legacy. me to starting point’ on the summary page to be navigated to the beginning of the trail. It’s a little journey, that will give you a big experience. The Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by German forces in World War Two. The Occupation has left an extraordinary legacy on Jersey, with hundreds of concrete bunkers, walls and tunnels ringing the coast and scattering the island’s interior. The order for such an immense construction effort came directly from Hitler, who demanded his much-prized Channel Islands be turned into impregnable fortresses. He insisted that Jersey become a centrepiece in the Atlantic Wall, Germany’s steel and concrete belt of fortifications protecting Western Europe from Allied invasion. Hitler’s blind obsession and ruthless Nazi efficiency drove the fortress building programme at a furious pace. Though never completed, fortification building in the Channel Islands drew in around one tenth of enemy wartime construction effort – leaving the amazing results seen today. Exploring, you will find most of these remarkable structures still in place, some preserved, most derelict. Collectively, they represent the finest range of World War Two fortifications found anywhere in the world. Explore relics of the past and discover the big story of our little rock. 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