Legacies of Occupation Heritage, Memory and Archaeology in the Chann

This book explores the way in which the legacy of the German occupation of the Channel Islands has been turned into heritage (or, conversely, neglected) over the last 70 years. Once seen as the ‘taint of the mark of the beast’, the perception of much of w

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Gilly Carr

Legacies of Occupation Heritage, Memory and Archaeology in the Channel Islands

Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology Volume 40

Series editor Charles E. Orser, Jr., Albany, USA

For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/5734

Gilly Carr

Legacies of Occupation Heritage, Memory and Archaeology in the Channel Islands

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Gilly Carr St. Catharine’s College Cambridge UK

ISSN 1574-0439 ISBN 978-3-319-03406-5 ISBN 978-3-319-03407-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-03407-2 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London

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To my grandparents, Mark and Margaret Plummer, who were evacuated; my greatgrandparents, Inez and Herbert Plummer, who were occupied; and to Bertram, Lily, Robin, Harold, Edith and Eva Bartlett, and Gus Bradshaw, who were deported to Biberach civilian internment camp

Acknowledgments

During the six years of fieldwork I was helped by numerous people in each of the Channel Islands who gave up their time to talk to me and to visit Occupation sites of all description with me in all kinds of weather. Together we have gone ‘bunkering’ on hot sunny days and in the biting cold