'Reason and a sense of proportion have become shadow as reactionary. The shadow of the gallows hangs over us all.'
During the German occupation of the Channel Islands in the Second World War. Baron
Hans Max von Aufsess, Head of Military Administration, secretly wrote a diary which records the mounting tension on the islands as food ran out. morale deteriorated and Nazi fanaticism increased in the face of defeat.
In a programme based on the stili-unpublished diary,
Derek Robinson tells the story of the last days, with John Woodvine as the Baron
Producer CATHY WEARING