A long-running debate about a small part of Britain’s Holocaust history has been settled.
A panel of historians tasked with investigating the death toll in Alderney, a British Crown Dependency and one of the Channel Islands in the English Channel, has adjusted the island’s historical record, adding several hundred people to an official count from the 1940s.
On Wednesday, he presented the findings with members of the panel in a packed room at the Imperial War Museum in London.
It concluded that the likely range of deaths was between 641 and 1,027, with a maximum number of 1,134 people.
Most of them were forced laborers from the Soviet Union.
Persons:
Eric Pickles, Britain’s, —
Organizations:
British, Channel, Imperial War Museum
Locations:
Alderney, London, Soviet Union, France