The Nazi Occupation of Jersey

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This is the sound of Liberation Day in Jersey. I'm standing on a very, very busy street right in the heart of St. Helia, the biggest town. There is a parade of people marching past all around me from balconies and flagpoles. We've got Union flags and the flag of Jersey flying taut in the easterly breeze that's blowing today.

The sun is out, there's not a cloud in the sky. It's perfect weather because thousands of people of Jersey have come out to mark, to commemorate and celebrate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of this island from Nazi occupation in May 1945. And there's an urgency to this commemoration because the people of Jersey they understood what it was to live under the yoke of tyranny, to live under Nazi military occupation. And it's the anniversary of their liberation and clearly they intend to celebrate it.

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