Nazi mail stolen from occupied Jersey is delivered to relatives 71 years later
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | December 21, 2012 8:40
Christmas letters from German Second World War soldiers have finally been delivered 71 years after they were stolen during the occupation of Jersey.
The 86 cards and letters, written by Nazi soldiers to their loved ones back home, were discovered five years ago hidden in the back of a piano.
Ten of the ninety letters were delivered on Tuesday – the date they would originally have been received.
The bag of letters were stolen by a group of teenage boys from a German Army post office in St Helier in 1941 – 18 months after the invasion of the Channel Island.
They remained hidden in the piano until 2007 when they were handed to the Jersey Archive by an anonymous man.
Felix Blaich, from Deutsche Post, said finding the recipients was difficult because many had moved or were no longer 
alive, others were marked for places which were not part of modern Germany.
At the time of the theft, islanders were beginning to be prosecuted for small acts of resistance and insulting the authorities.
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