Sat, Mar 8, 1980
Standartenführer Grunwald arrives on Guernsey, ostensibly to set up a concentration camp. However, he is the uncle of Eric, the illegitimate son of single mother Betty Ridge, who is struggling to make ends meet. Grunwald wants to take Eric to Germany to have a better life with the Grunwald family but Betty refuses. Although Grunwald respects her decision, Reinicke, anxious to worm his way in with the Standartenführer, tricks Betty into handing the child over.
Sat, Feb 4, 1978
Reinicke organizes a dance for soldiers and local girls to attract good publicity. Anton Schen, a young Austrian, takes a shine to Marie Weston, whose widowed father, a lawyer who fought in World War I, has had his car requisitioned by the occupiers and does not want Marie to attend the dance. She nevertheless goes behind his back and dances with Anton but, on the way home, fights off his advances and accuses him of rape. He is court-martialled and claims that Marie was willing but Richter finds him guilty and he is shot. Next morning Richter orders Reinicke to give Mr. Weston his car back.
Sat, Apr 15, 1978
Richter gives Dr. Martel permission to travel to France to get much needed medicines for the islanders. At the same time, Peter has secretly been photographing German ships at the local port, with a view to passing them to the French Resistance so that the Germans' strengths can be calculated. He and Clare put them in Dr. Martel's case but the Germans open it as he is leaving for France, with the result that the doctor and Peter are both sent to prison.
Sat, Mar 1, 1980
Kluge decides to revive the inter-island chess tournament as a morale-boosting P.R. exercise despite misgivings by Richter and Dr. Martel that a German victory would cause resentment among the islanders. When Reinicke uses dirty tricks to force the local chess master Arthur Gardner to withdraw from the final against former champion Muller to ensure a German propaganda win, Arthur's wife Louise takes his place and beats Muller. Muller is gracious in defeat but Richter is furious with Reinicke after Dr. Martel has exposed his dirty dealings.
Sat, Jan 26, 1980
Foster-Smythe continues to be a studied thorn in the Germans' sides, complaining that the confiscation of civilian radios is illegal. However, when a tip-off that he has hidden his own radio leads to a search of his house, Hoffman, one of Kluge's men who has an English wife and pro-British feelings, finds it but says nothing. Foster-Smythe is then told that his house is to be used as a billet but before this can take place his Nigerian housekeeper and lover, Lily, is deliberately run over and killed by drunken SS men. Richter and Kluge want a murder trial but are forced to back down when Reinicke threatens to report them to Berlin for showing anti-Aryan sympathies. The next day, Foster-Smythe burns his house down and escapes to England with Hoffman.
Sat, Mar 18, 1978
On her father's death, Betty Ridge gets work as a cleaner for the Germans, meeting young soldier Erich, with whom she spends a romantic evening. At a dance, their association scandalises locals who taunt her as a "Jerrybag." When Betty falls pregnant, despite Erich's sincere wish to marry her, they are forbidden as such unions are not allowed. Erich is sent to the Russian front before the child is born and his death is reported. Betty feels he abandoned her and wants to give their baby son up for adoption but, after a sympathetic pep talk from Peter, is proud to keep him despite local animosity.
Sat, Apr 8, 1978
Arrogant Prussian officer Major Von Bulow comes to the island and is billeted with Peter whilst he trains soldiers for the Russian front. He recognizes Chantal, a French prostitute in the Germans' brothel as an old flame of Reinicke and,as he dislikes Reinicke, takes great delight in revealing her occupation,sending his batman Klinski to have sex with her. Reinicke is humiliated as planned but when a drunken Klinski, rejected by Chantal, kills her, he is also the chief suspect. He is exonerated but his reputation tarnished as Von Bulow leaves Guernsey.
Sat, Mar 15, 1980
Russian slave prisoner Kiril Kamerovsky kills a German guard and escapes, being hidden by Jenny Glover and her family at great risk to themselves, calling in Dr. Martel as Kiril has pneumonia. Kluge learns that Kiril's father is a high-ranking Russian general and that Kiril is well-read so he gets one of his men to follow Jenny when she goes to get him library books. The Glovers are arrested but Kiril has been moved to the Porteouses. Kiril is arrested on false papers and Reinicke, going behind Richter's back, tortures him to death before he can implicate the Glovers. Once more, Reinicke incurs Richter's wrath. If the truth gets out, it will give the Russians the excuse to similarly abuse German POWs.
Sat, Mar 29, 1980
After his farm has been repeatedly plundered by Germans, who killed his dog, Walter Nicolle confronts and kills the latest intruder. However, he is caught trying to bury the body. Peter, desperate to escape from Guernsey, agrees to leave a letter admitting to the killing in exchange for the use of Walter's boat but his escape is not as he had imagined.
Sat, Feb 23, 1980
Already jealous that, late in life, her brother Bill married the younger, German-born piano teacher Hertha, Marjory Clifford's resentment grows as she sees them befriend young officer Helmut Wolf, a piano student of Hertha's. She writes an anonymous letter, accusing Hertha of black market activities after she sells cigars Helmut gave her. No evidence is found but Richter, aware that Reinicke dislikes Helmut, sends him to the mainland to save him whilst Bill is interned, along with Hertha, after Marjory's meddling leads the Germans to discover that he was born in England, not Guernsey.