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Guernsey boy and German soldier’s lifetime friendship

While Mr Kirchner was uncomfortable with some of the “verboten”, or forbidden, things happening, he was also keen to hear news of home, Mr Burton said.

He caught Mr Burton, his brother and a friend listening to comedian Tommy Handley’s BBC radio show on an illegal crystal radio set.

Mr Burton smiled as he remembered: “We were laughing our heads off and all of a sudden a voice goes that’s forbidden, that’s verboten.

“I said ‘but today everything’s verboten’.”

Offering him the chance to hear the German news, the young soldier was soon listening every day.

When the crystal set broke, Mr Burton showed Mr Kirchner his father’s radio hidden in the kitchen larder.

He said: “I can still see him laying on the floor with the volume right down and his ear against the radio.

“I never said nothing to my people, that I’d done it, that I’d showed him.”

Mr Burton said it was not long before his father found out and he was in trouble.


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