Season 2
13 episodes
52 min. per episode
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As occupation tightens, a local struggles between loyalty and survival, revealing dark secrets that test their humanity.
Episodes
Hard line General Muller visits Richter and accuses him of leniency with Dr. Martel and Peter after Reinicke reported him. Reinicke is promoted but so too is Richter. Once again Reinicke is made to feel out of step with the other German officers. Wracked with guilt over causing Peter's imprisonment and killing the Luftwaffe officer, Clare becomes depressed and Dr. Forbes, standing in for her father, is unable to reach her. After she is arrested for trespassing on the beach where Willy died, Clare walks into the sea to drown herself.
Clare is pulled alive from the sea and taken home to recover, her court case for trespass postponed. She is delirious and Richter hears her murmur that she killed the Luftwaffe pilot but he keeps quiet about it. Müller wants to organize a reception, a propaganda exercise inviting local worthies to meet him, but the other Germans know that the islanders' antipathy to their occupiers would mean that nobody turned up. It is left to Reinicke to tell him this. The Germans are mystified that meat is being stolen on a regular basis from their cold store. The culprit is reckless Captain Foster-Smythe, angry that his protests to the Nazis that the islanders are being deprived of food are unheeded, but he manages to elude them.
Hauptmann Anders is accused of supposedly passing on details of troop movements to Marguerite, a local girl he befriended, and is suspended from duty. He pleads not guilty but his arrogant stance does not help. Ultimately, he admits guilt but Kluge believes he is lying, to spare the girl who merely guessed where the soldiers were headed. Dr. Martel is released from prison, angry and shocked at what he has seen. He visits a distant Clare who is being cared for by nuns in a convent.
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.
John Ambrose asks Dr. Martel to rejoin the controlling committee as a health officer but he demurs,not wanting the pressure. The Germans' market garden is sabotaged when their fuel is run off, making it impossible to water their produce. As a result, Hellmann, an overzealous member of Muller's staff, goes behind his back and rations the islanders' water supply. Ambrose protests but Richter tells him to get a medical opinion before he can consider reversing the decision and suggests he tries Dr. Martel again. As a consequence the doctor reluctantly rejoins the committee and gets the order withdrawn.
During the Second World War, the inhabitants of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, try to cope with the German occupation.