David Fraser: ‘Quite Contrary to the Principles of British Justice’: The Jews of the Channel Islands 1940-1945

From 1940 to 1945 the Channel Islands were the only part of Britain
to fall under Nazi occupation. German anti-Jewish decrees became
part of the Islands’ legal structures. Local police and government
officials identified and registered the few remaining Jews. Jewish
property was Aryanized and Jews were deported, all with the knowing
involvement of government officials who remained officially loyal
to the British Crown. This lecture examines both the legal and
moral failures and the ambiguities which surrounded this little
known part of British Jewish history. (This paper was given on 7
March 2013 at the German Historical Institute London as part of the
European Leo Baeck Lecture Series London, 2013.)