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.”
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