WI: Germans hand Channel Islands over to France in 1940?

Just had a crazy thought. What if Hitler, in trying to get the French on his side declared the recently conquered Channel Islands to become part of France?

How would this affect the Allies, specifically the Free French as well as the French people?
 
All deals made between the Reich and Vichy France would be disallowed. Free France is the recognized legitimate government after the war and the Third Reich defeated. It would be ignored, and the islands pass directly from German control to British.
 
All deals made between the Reich and Vichy France would be disallowed. Free France is the recognized legitimate government after the war and the Third Reich defeated. It would be ignored, and the islands pass directly from German control to British.

Of course they would be disallowed if the Allies won. I don't think that's the question. I think the question is if this deal would either strengthen Vichy (in the eyes of most French) and weaken DeGaulle's Free French. Presumably, this would be offered to Vichy as part of an arrangement seeking their overt entry into WW2 on Germany's side, at which point it would be implict that the German Occupation zone bordering the Channel would revert to largely to France. Frankly, I doubt if this would make much difference.
 
It would be rather odd, as Vichy had none of the French Atlantic or Channel coastline.
Technically Vichy still had all the original French land except for Alsace-Lorraine; by the terms of the treaty signed with Germany the rest of the territory was only under temporary German occupation until Britain got knocked out of the war.

Of course they would be disallowed if the Allies won. I don't think that's the question. I think the question is if this deal would either strengthen Vichy (in the eyes of most French) and weaken DeGaulle's Free French. Presumably, this would be offered to Vichy as part of an arrangement seeking their overt entry into WW2 on Germany's side, at which point it would be implict that the German Occupation zone bordering the Channel would revert to largely to France. Frankly, I doubt if this would make much difference.
Have to agree there, the channel islands are frankly pretty insignificant in the broader scheme of things. I can't see offering the Islands to Vichy making a big difference.
 
Of course they would be disallowed if the Allies won. I don't think that's the question. I think the question is if this deal would either strengthen Vichy (in the eyes of most French) and weaken DeGaulle's Free French. Presumably, this would be offered to Vichy as part of an arrangement seeking their overt entry into WW2 on Germany's side, at which point it would be implict that the German Occupation zone bordering the Channel would revert to largely to France. Frankly, I doubt if this would make much difference.

I´m not so sure that some small islands would make the French forget the nice German troops in French soil, and the Gestapo, and ...
 
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