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German Occupation Museum

The story of the islands' five years under German occupation, from 1940 to 1945.

Photo: Heather Cowper · CC BY 2.0
Open
Most days
Price
Paid
Time Needed
1 hour
Address
Les Houards, Forest GY8 0BGDirections
Getting There
Near the airport, about 20 minutes by bus from St Peter Port.

Why Go

The Channel Islands were the only British soil occupied in the Second World War. The museum's rooms and a re-created street show daily life under curfew and rationing, and the bunkers and towers the Germans built along the coast.

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