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☆ Alderney was once the site of Nazi atrocities. A new inquiry reveals truths of this quiet British island
  + stars: | 2024-05-25 | by ( Sophie Tanno | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
CNN —Alderney, a quiet British island in the English Channel known for its outstanding natural beauty, was once the site of the only Nazi camps on British soil – and a hell on Earth for its thousands of inmates. Stretching for three square miles, the island was occupied by the Nazis for most of World War II. According to Pickles, the lack of records has led to unsubstantiated claims being made about Alderney and the war crimes that took place there. “Prisoners were treated appallingly, and life was cheap, but Alderney did not house a ‘mini-Auschwitz’; there was no extermination centre on the island,” Pickles said. Pickles, meanwhile, said the fact that the perpetrators never faced British justice is a “stain on the reputations of successive British governments.”
Persons: Eric Pickles, ”, –, Carl Court, Pickles, ” Pickles, “, Anthony Glees, Glees Organizations: CNN, Nazi, Soviet Union, Research, United Nations, ’, USSR, Glee Locations: Alderney, Britain, Jersey, Guernsey, British, Europe, Eastern Europe, Soviet, Soviet Union, USSR
☆ Holocaust Death Toll on English Channel Island Is Raised by Hundreds
  + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Claire Moses | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
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
☆ This Small Island Has a Dark History
  + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Claire Moses | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Look closely at this tiny, idyllic island: Victorian-era fortifications dot the windswept coastline. A concrete anti-tank wall disrupts a quiet beach. This is Alderney, where the 2,100 people who call the island home do not lock their cars. Where the streets are quiet and the pubs (nine of them) are lively, and the roads don’t have traffic lights. And where reminders of World War II hide behind most corners.
Locations: Alderney, France, Britain
☆ Artist's discovery of an 'execution wall' sheds light on the brutal history of Nazi concentration camps on British soil
  + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Forensic evidence from a bullet-damaged wall sheds light on the Nazi occupation of a British island. During World War II, thousands of prisoners were sent to labor and concentration camps in Alderney. Before the Germans occupied the Channel Islands, the whole population of Alderney were evacuated to England. German occupying troops parading in St. Helier on Jersey, Channel Islands in 1940. Last year a right-wing British think tank proposed that asylum seekers headed to the UK be detained on the island.
☆ A former Nazi encampment on a tiny Channel island can be yours for about $50,000
  + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Stephanie Stacey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Seven acres of Nazi trenches in the Channel Islands are up for sale for about £40,000 ($50,000). The heavily-fortified site was home to 24 soldiers and 3 Nazi officers in the Second World War. The Channel Islands were the only British territory to be occupied during the conflict. The Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, just off the coast of France, were the only British territory to be occupied during the Second World War. Hitler heavily fortified the Channel Islands between 1942 and 1944 as part of his "Atlantic Wall" strategy — a system of coastal defenses intended to block an anticipated Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.
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