Lager Sylt, whose gates still stand today, housed the Jewish prisoners, who were treatment shocked the locals who remained on the Islands under the Nazis. Christian Streit: Keine Kameraden: Die Wehrmacht und die Sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen, 1941-1945, Bonn: Dietz (3.

In January 1943 there was a big storm and two … Detailed death certificates were filled out and the deaths were reported to OT in St Malo.

There are many illegitimate children on the island born to German fathers. [9], The four German camps in Alderney have not been preserved or commemorated, aside from a small plaque at the former SS camp Lager Sylt. His body was left hanging like this for four days". Traditionally, the third fold in some flag-folding ceremonies honors and remembers veterans for their sacrifice in defending their country and promoting peace in the world. Apart from malnutrition, accidents and ill treatment, there were losses on ships bringing OT workers to or taking them from Alderney.

On his chest he had a sign on which was written ‘for stealing bread’. Of the four labour camps ‘Lager Sylt’ was in reality a concentration camp; it was handed over to the SS Construction Brigade in March 1943 and used by Organisation Todt (OT) to house Russian and other forced labourers. The SS would kill them. He pointed out that under Jersey law a husband was responsible for the upkeep of his wife's illegitimate children. Christian Streit: Keine Kameraden: Die Wehrmacht und die Sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen, 1941-1945, Bonn: Dietz (3. Maximilian List was an architect in Berlin who became an SS officer, involved in the operation of a number of Nazi concentration camps. The Borkum and Helgoland camps were "volunteer" (Hilfswillige) labour camps [2] and the labourers in those camps were treated harshly but better than the inmates at the Sylt and Norderney camps. Sylt remained in operation until June 1944 acting as a satellite camp of Neuengamme near Hamburg but the inmates came from Sachsenhausen, a camp near Berlin.

The Alderney concentration camps were built and operated by Nazi Germany during its World War II occupation of the Channel Islands. That tiny Alderney — less than four miles long and a mile-and-a-half wide — was the site of slave labour camps during the war has been recognised for decades. There is also a short concrete lined tunnel that connected the camp commandant’s house outside the perimeter fence to the camp, entering the camp below the ablutions block in a 3 metre square room with stairs up to the surface; this is the only remaining building on the site. More than 700 camp inmates lost their lives before the camps were closed and the remaining inmates transferred to France in 1944. The island bosses, moreover, have lived well ... they have never gone short of food, fuel and other commodities that are in short supply for the man in the street.".

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( Log Out /  The Lager Sylt commandant, Karl Tietz had a black French colonial as an under officer. It is 3 miles (5 km) long and 1 1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) wide. The Channel Islands was the only part of the British Isles to be occupied. [3], Norderney camp housed European (mainly Eastern but including Spanish) and Russian enforced labourers. The Alderney camps were prison camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during its World War II occupation of the Channel Islands.

The four camps on the island had a total inmate population that fluctuated but is estimated at about 6,000.

Of the 1,600 Russian prisoners brought to the island - which was abandoned by the British after the Germans took France - in 1942 to work as forced labourers building fortifications for the Germans, at least half starved or were beaten to death according to MI19. In 1948, the British transferred the land to the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg, which summarily demolished the camp's wooden barracks and built in its stead a prison cell block, converting the former concentration camp site into two state prisons operated by the Hamburg authorities from 1950 to 2004. The Alderney concentration camps were built and operated by Nazi Germany during its World War II occupation of the Channel Islands. "Too undernourished and exhausted to work efficiently, these men were mercilessly beaten by the German guard and frequently when they were too weak after a beating to stand up, they were clubbed to death or finished off with a knife," one report said. These were then modified and updated in the mid 20th Century by Germans during the occupation period. Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Two of the escort vessels, V-208 (Walther Darré) and V-210 (Hinrich Hey) were sunk. [4] However, he did not stand trial, and is believed to have lived near Hamburg until his death in the 1980s. ‘All day long the stench of their poor, wretched, unwashed bodies and clothes hung about the route they had followed.’.

[5], Coordinates: 49°43′N 2°12′W / 49.717°N 2.200°W / 49.717; -2.200.

They were named after the Frisian Islands: Lager Norderney, Lager Borkum, Lager Sylt and Lager Helgoland.
‘There were more than the 1,000 of them – political prisoners brought away from Alderney. Alderney is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands.

[1] The Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied.

When a team of specialists came to Alderney to investigate, the Alderney Government shut it down, saying they would not allow them to carry on. Of the four labour camps ‘Lager Sylt’ was in reality a … During the German occupation of the Channel Islands, there was limited resistance.

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.

Alderney concentration camps memorial plaque. Islanders who were caught breaking the law or who were seen as being undesirables could find themselves drawn into the continental prison system and for some the journey ended in the concentration camp. [8] However, he did not stand trial,[ why? ] Kept locked in the holds for two weeks whilst the ships were salvaged resulted in a number of deaths. I pointed this man out after the war, but he walks around today a free man. Aufl. Many were also shot.

The camps commenced operating in January 1942. The files are largely transcripts of interrogations of escapees undertaken by MI19, the intelligence body charged with building up a picture of enemy resources and morale. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. All the emotions of pity, sympathy, sorrow, anger and horror surged through us as we watched. The Borkum and Helgoland camps were "volunteer" (Hilfswillige) labour camps and the labourers in those camps were treated harshly but marginally better than the inmates at the Sylt and Norderney camps.

Aufl. Mittelbau-Dora was a Nazi concentration camp located near Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany. And then an SS officer gave an order to carry them out of the camp to the gate where he shot them there. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency.