20 September 1944 Loss of Clifford John Cohu

Clifford Cohu was Guernseyman who made a home in Jersey with his wife and was a priest providing an opportunity to share BBC news with many others. He was arrested by the Geheime Feldpolizei (secret military police of the German Wehrmacht) on the 12th of March 1943 and sentenced on the 9th of April 1943 for one year and six months of hard labour. The crime was failing to surrender leaflets and for disseminating anti-German news. Clifford Cohu would be transferred to various prisons in Europe and finally dies of fatigue and beatings in Zöschen Forced Labour & Education camp, Spergau Germany in September 1944.

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