'Bombings were UK propaganda' claim

THE BRITISH Government failed to tell the Germans that Guernsey had been demilitarised in 1940 in order to score a propaganda victory, it has been claimed.

The revelation comes 70 years to the day after 34 people died when enemy bombers attacked the White Rock.

The assertion is made following production of a new television series, The Channel Islands at War, which will be shown at 10pm on the Yesterday satellite channel for an hour, for three nights, from tonight.

But Guernsey's former Bailiff Sir de Vic Carey, grandson of the wartime Bailiff, Victor Carey, said he did not think that the UK Government had acted intentionally to provoke the attack.

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