WW2 "Bobbies" who Stole from the Germans (Occupied Guernsey, UK)

You might think anyone would have stolen from the Nazis if given the opportunity. Anyone would have pilfered from the Nazis what was absurdly overpriced and was only elsewhere available on the black market. Those mountain stores of fresh butter, that chance to not eat stale bread for once, and those barrels of alcohol that could be warmed during the coming bitter winter. You would have been the one who shared the plunder with your starving friends and family.

And yet, would you have stolen from the Nazis if your life was on the line? If being caught meant being beaten and humiliated, made to admit that you had also stolen from your friends? That you could be thrown into labour camps abroad, forced to help the Nazis by building them train tracks? Forever disgraced by your neighbours?

The Robin Hood Guernsey policemen certainly knew the risks but took them anyway.

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