Alderney camps

[1] Alderney had four forced/slave labour sites, including Lager Sylt, the only Nazi concentration camp on British soil during the wartime occupation.

Tietz was brought before a court-martial in April 1943 and sentenced to 18 months' penal servitude for the crime of selling on the black market after he sold cigarettes, watches, and valuables he had bought from Dutch OT workers.

In January 1943 there was a big storm and two ships, the Xaver Dorsch and the Franks, anchored in Alderney harbour were blown ashore onto the beach, they contained about 1,000 Russian OT workers.

[11]: 212–4 After World War II, a court-martial case was prepared against former SS Hauptsturmführer Maximilian List, citing atrocities on Alderney.

[14] In 1949, an East German court convicted an SS man named Peter Bikar of crimes against humanity for the non-fatal abuse of prisoners in the Alderney camps.

[18] During the trial, former French inmates, including pianist Léon Kartun,[19] Doctor Ivan Dreyfus, and lawyer Maurice Azoulay, testified about the harsh punishments and physical abuse they endured at the camp.

The Association des Anciens Déportés d’Aurigny, a French organization of former Alderney inmates, publicly criticized these sentences as overly lenient, given the severity of the crimes committed.

[20] A 1945 British military report by investigator Captain Pantcheff documented that at least eight French nationals died in the Alderney camps, reflecting the brutal conditions endured by inmates.

[22] Archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls of Staffordshire University said that there was "no evidence... to suggest that numbers in the tens of thousands of deaths are in any way credible whatsoever.

Her findings were the subject of an exhibition titled: On British Soil: Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide from October 2017 to February 2018.

[3] In summer 2023, Lord Eric Pickles, UK special envoy on post-Holocaust issues, ordered an inquiry into the atrocities committed in Alderney and assembled a panel of Holocaust experts to conduct it.