Over the course of the German occupation of the British Channel Islands from 1940 to 1945, a number of letters of denunciation were sent by islanders to the German authorities, accusing fellow islanders of violations of occupation law or of anti-German activity of one sort or another. The German occupiers were ambivalent toward the denunciations. While recognizing their usefulness in maintaining order and the respect for German rule, they found both the letters and their writers distasteful. The local British authorities in Jersey and Guernsey also found the letters problematic; the consequences for the individuals targeted in the letters could be dire, and the impact on island society as a whole was significant, both during the occupation and beyond liberation in May 1945. The extent and nature of resistance and collaboration have been contentious issues in the historiography of the occupation of the Channel Islands, and these letters have been cited as evidence that islanders were unduly cooperative with the Nazis. This article examines the surviving letters of denunciation, and by placing them into the wider contexts of Nazi Europe and the historiography of denunciation in totalitarian states, argues that denunciation in the Channel Islands, far from being exceptional, was quite typical of the practice throughout the Nazi empire.

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德占海峡群岛的谴责，1940-1945

在 1940 年至 1945 年德国占领英属海峡群岛的过程中，岛民向德国当局发送了多封谴责信，指控岛民同胞违反占领法或从事某种反德活动或其他。德国占领者对这些谴责态度矛盾。虽然认识到它们在维持秩序和尊重德国统治方面的作用，但他们发现这些信件和他们的作者都令人反感。泽西岛和根西岛的当地英国当局也发现这些信件存在问题。信件中针对的个人的后果可能是可怕的，并且对整个岛屿社会的影响是巨大的，无论是在占领期间还是在 1945 年 5 月解放之后。抵抗与合作的程度和性质一直是海峡群岛占领史中的争议问题，这些信件被引用为岛民与纳粹过度合作的证据。本文考察了幸存的谴责信，并将它们置于纳粹欧洲和极权主义国家的谴责史的更广泛背景下，认为海峡群岛的谴责远非例外，而是整个历史时期的典型做法。纳粹帝国。