article_snippet.sent: During the German occupation of the Channel Islands (30 June 1940 to 9 May 1945), this stately retreat was commandeered as the General Staff Headquarters.
article_snippet.sent: The occupation lingers in the old German fortifications that litter the coastline –
article_snippet.sent: German signs and instructions are still daubed onto the walls.
article_snippet.sent: As did many of the injured German troops brought here from France after the D-Day landings.
article_snippet.sent: The heaviness of the German bootprint is perhaps summed up by Battery Lothringen –
article_snippet.sent: In the summer of 1940, it was another German outpost, requisitioned as a hang-out by Luftwaffe pilots.