EIGHT young ambassadors have been chosen to represent the island in Germany.

THE Germans left a very visible stamp on Alderney – not only in the form of bunkers, batteries and barbed wire, but through other, rather more personal reminders.

STORIES from local victims of Nazi persecution are being kept in closed files by the Foreign Office.

ALDERNEY residents spoke yesterday of the joy and horror of returning to the island after the Second World War.

A CAMBRIDGE academic has defended her research on the Occupation and said she will not receive a penny in royalties when her book is published.

THREATS against actor John Nettles were branded appalling at the DVD launch of The Channel Islands at War yesterday.

EVEN 65 years after the event, it is clear that the German Occupation still generates extreme emotion. From the anniversary celebrations in the summer to the reunions held in the UK to mark the evacuation of so many local children, the memories of that shattering time run deep.

BERGERAC actor John Nettles was warned never to return to the Channel Islands in threatening letters he received from Guernsey.

GUERNSEY has finally been cleared of claims that islanders collaborated with the Germans during the Occupation.

THE St Saviour’s wartime tunnels are safe, according to the owner of the section that has been put up for sale.