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Sir Victor Gosselin Carey was Bailiff of Guernsey from 1935 to 1946. Carey was a leading member of one of Guernsey's oldest families. In 1935, when incumbent Baliff Arthur William Bell died, Carey, who had been Receiver General from 1912 to 1935, replaced him because Procurer Ambrose Sherwill, to whom the role would have normally fallen, had only been in office a few weeks. During his term of office, Guernsey was occupied by the German military during World War II. During the Nazi Occupation of the Channel Islands German authorities seized control of the Bailiwick. Age 69 at the beginning of the Occupation, Carey was considered too old to be able to function as the executive of the Island Authorities on his own. Therefore, in contrast to the situation in Jersey, the Baliff of Guernsey's powers were actually reduced during the Occupation as day-to-day running of Island affairs became the responsibility of a Controlling Committee of the States of Guernsey, chaired at first by Ambrose Sherwill, and after Sherwill's deportation by Jurat John Leale. The Baliff remained a higher authority, only entering into the political foray when the actions of the Controlling Committee had yielded an unsatisfactory outcome. In November 1940, Victor cooperated with the Nazis and gave them the names of Jews in Guernsey and the nearby island of Sark. Three Jews were later deported to German-occupied France, and were eventually killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau. After the war a British Military Intelligence report said “when the Germans proposed to put their anti-Jewish measures into force, no protest whatever was raised by any of the Guernsey officials and they hastened to give the Germans every assistance”. A private memorandum from a senior judge, Lord Justice du Parcq, to the Home Secretary, James Chuter-Ede, in 1945 comments on allegations of collaboration within the Jersey and Guernsey administrations.〔http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/papers-reveal-islanders-collaboration-with-nazis-1560945.html〕 He specifies the Channel Island governments' collaboration in the deportation of 2,000 English and Jews to concentration camps in 1942. 'I think that a strong case can be made . . . that the authorities ought to have refused to give any assistance in the performance of this violation of international law. I have had some communication with the War Crimes Commission on the subject, and I know that the Commission has recommended the prosecution of the Germans responsible . . . I should feel happier if I thought a strong line had been taken.' Of the Bailiff of Guernsey, Victor Carey, he says: 'There is strong feeling in responsible quarters in Guernsey against the Bailiff by reason of the orders issued by him. Some at least were shocked by the use of the words 'enemy forces' to describe His Majesty's and Allied Forces, and by the promise of a pounds 25 reward to any informer against a person writing the V sign (symbol of resistance) or other words calculated to offend the German authorities.' Published works have criticised his role in the government of the Baliwick during this period (see, for example, Madeline Bunting's ''The Model Occupation'').〔Madeline Bunting, 'The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1945', 2004〕 Nevertheless, on the whole he remains a figure of considerable repute in Guernsey itself.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/guernsey/content/articles/2008/11/25/occupation_memories_november_feature.shtml〕 Victor Gosselin Carey was given a Knighthood in December 1945. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victor Carey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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