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German occupation of the British Channel Islands (WW2)

By 1941 German forces occupied the British island of Alderney and constructed fortifications to protect their hold on the Channel Islands often with slave labour. (Smithsonian)

The Man Who Saved Britain: The Battle Of Britain (WW2 Documentary) | Timeline

This documentary argues it was primarily Dowding who saved Britain from defeat against Hitler in 1940, only to be ignominiously humiliated at the end of the conflict.

SOE: Operation Ratweek and Hardy Amies

Secret War Ep12 Hardy Amies

The Liberators: Canadian Veteran recalls the liberation of the Netherlands

Netherlands Under German Occupation during WW2

Netherlands during (tijdens) WW2 1940-45, by Michael Rogge, provides an American perspective which does not mention the Battle of Arnhem and other important British and Canadian operations.

Cities at War: London WW2

Defiant London a Timeline documentary

France under occupation: film footage taken at great risk by Gaston Madru.

Rare news footage of Nazi occupied France captured surreptitiously by a brave French cameraman, Gaston Madru, from 1942 to 1944. It gives a snapshot of everything from swastikas flying from French buildings to the German retreat from France in 1944. If caught Madru would have been executed.