The frail posters, newsletters, manifestos and comment go under the gavel tonight at Simon Drieu’s auction house at Glencoe, St Lawrence.
Mr Drieu bought them recently from an anonymous seller.
All the papers support the Jersey Democratic Movement and Jersey Communist Party which were active during the Occupation and post-war years and which were personified by the late Deputy Norman Le Brocq.
In the political maelstrom that followed the Second World War, communism offered a counterweight to the fascism that had devastated Europe.
Under a photograph of the wartime Bailiff Alexander Coutanche receiving German soldiers at the Airport in July 1940, one poster asks ‘Shall Nazis Be Our New Allies?’.
It then calls on people to reject security measures proposed by NATO which the States were debating at the time.
