Time Team (1994)

18x04 Les Gellettes, Jersey - Hitler's Island Fortress

Tony Robinson doesn't usually get to decide where the Team should dig, but in this episode he chooses his first ever site for investigation: a German anti-aircraft battery built during the Nazis' five-year occupation of Jersey. The archaeologists have never investigated anything like this before and must apply all their skills to make sense of a site now reclaimed by a forest. It's soon clear that the gun emplacements are part of a much bigger, complex fortified settlement that was home to hundreds of German soldiers equipped with a vast array of weapons. And, unlike with older sites, the Team can talk to people who witnessed life under the occupation at first hand. What emerges is the shocking story of a fortress island where German installations were built by slave labour and the local population began to starve as the war continued. Of terrible conditions that seem more fitting to the eras the Team usually investigate, rather than just 70 years ago. Over three days Time

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Tony Robinson Tony Robinson As: Self - Presenter
Carenza Lewis Carenza Lewis As: Herself
Raksha Dave Raksha Dave As: Self - Field Archeologist
Phil Harding Phil Harding As: Self - Field Archaeologist
Mick Aston Mick Aston As: Self - Landscape Archaeologist
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Tony Robinson doesn't usually get to decide where the Team should dig, but in this episode he chooses his first ever site for investigation: a German anti-aircraft battery built during the Nazis' five-year occupation of Jersey. The archaeologists have never investigated anything like this before and must apply all their skills to make sense of a site now reclaimed by a forest. It's soon clear that the gun emplacements are part of a much bigger, complex fortified settlement that was home to hundreds of German soldiers equipped with a vast array of weapons. And, unlike with older sites, the Team can talk to people who witnessed life under the occupation at first hand. What emerges is the shocking story of a fortress island where German installations were built by slave labour and the local population began to starve as the war continued. Of terrible conditions that seem more fitting to the eras the Team usually investigate, rather than just 70 years ago. Over three days Time


Certification: TV-G

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Aired: 27 February, 2011 at 6:00 pm

Language: English

Country: United Kingdom

Runtime: 45m

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Tony Robinson

Tony Robinson

Self - Presenter

Carenza Lewis

Carenza Lewis

Herself

Raksha Dave

Raksha Dave

Self - Field Archeologist

Phil Harding

Phil Harding

Self - Field Archaeologist

Mick Aston

Mick Aston

Self - Landscape Archaeologist

John Gater

John Gater

Self - Geophysicist

Stewart Ainsworth

Stewart Ainsworth

Self - Landscape Investigator

Victor Ambrus

Victor Ambrus

Self - Historical Illustrator

Helen Geake

Helen Geake

Self - Anglo-Saxon Specialist

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