Newsday - UK opens inquiry into concentration camps on British soil - BBC Sounds

A panel of international experts on the Holocaust is to review the number of deaths on British soil at a concentration camp on Alderney during the Nazi occupation of the Second World War.

Russian and Eastern European slave workers and Jewish prisoners were held at four camps around the island.

Post-war reports indicated that hundreds of them had died there, but experts have long believed that the true figure is much higher.

Lord Eric Pickles is the UK’s Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues and ordered the inquiry. He told Newsday: “The Nazis had free run of the whole island. There were…camps in every one of the Channel Islands – Jersey and Guernsey but in Alderney there were a series of camps and we think one, maybe two of them were part of a programme of literally working people to death as part of a deliberate policy.”