The Nazis occupied Guernsey during World War II and the people there had a very tough time during those years. They did manage an evacuation to England of many of the children and some of the women before the Germans invaded. They ran short of fuel, food, and nearly everything especially after D-Day cut off the German's access to occupied Europe.
Guernsey has been a strategic island since the days of William The Conqueror. Fortifications ring the island and were added to during the Tudor reigns, to ward off invaders from France during the Napoleonic era, etc. The Germans added to this, often building right on top of or modifying the existing work to accommodate their bunkers, cannons, etc. It was all built by slave labor, especially Poles, brought over from Occupied Europe. They built an extensive network of tunnels connecting the bunkers. Finally, they built an underground hospital that was used to treat those injured in the D-Day invasion.
Here's a bit of a photo montage of the German remnants.
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