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How a group of NIMBYs rewrote Alderney’s history

BBC national radio looked at the Nazi occupation of Alderney last night in a programme which both reflected on the events during the Second World War and looked forward to the investigative work being done by the expert panel under Lord Pickles.

Death toll on the occupied island of Alderney, or 'Little Auschwitz,' is hotly debated, as a possibly faulty postwar report has experts saying thousands more may have been killed

The old gateposts to Lager Sylt on the island of Alderney, 2012. (CC BY-SA 2.0/ John Rostron) A report compiled on Nazi concentration and death camps set up on the British Channel Islands during World War II that was uncovered in the Russian State Archives details some of the atrocities that led to the deaths of at least 700 people incarcerated at the sites. Sections of the “Report on Atrocities Committed in Alderney, 1942-1945” were published Sunday by The Times newspaper in the UK. The re...

The memo was written by intelligence officer Captain Theodore Pantcheff for the Government after the liberation of the Channel Islands following Nazi Germanys defeat in 1945.