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Nazi camp inquiry finds succession of cover-ups [View all]
Last edited Wed May 22, 2024, 01:10 PM - Edit history (1)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgg8y656yroNazi camp inquiry finds succession of cover-ups
19 minutes ago
Charlotte Cox, BBC News
A "succession of cover-ups" meant nobody was brought to justice for the deaths of hundreds of people in Nazi camps on the British island of Alderney, a panel of experts has found.
The inquiry ordered by Lord Pickles found it likely 641-1,027 people died under the "brutality, sadism and murder" of Nazi rule on the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands.
It found the Holocaust was "part of Alderney's history", while Lord Pickles said the subsequent lack of war trials was a "stain on the reputations of successive British governments".
The panel found this lack of justice was "intimately linked" to the prisoner-of-war breakout in Stalag Luft III - known as the Great Escape.
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19 minutes ago
Charlotte Cox, BBC News
A "succession of cover-ups" meant nobody was brought to justice for the deaths of hundreds of people in Nazi camps on the British island of Alderney, a panel of experts has found.
The inquiry ordered by Lord Pickles found it likely 641-1,027 people died under the "brutality, sadism and murder" of Nazi rule on the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands.
It found the Holocaust was "part of Alderney's history", while Lord Pickles said the subsequent lack of war trials was a "stain on the reputations of successive British governments".
The panel found this lack of justice was "intimately linked" to the prisoner-of-war breakout in Stalag Luft III - known as the Great Escape.
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On edit:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/lord-pickles-alderney-expert-review
Findings of the review that Lord Pickles commissioned into the evidence on how many prisoners died in the Channel Island of Alderney during its Nazi occupation.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/664cc5d2bd01f5ed32793fc4/The_Lord_Pickles-Alderney_expert_review.pdf
Lord Pickles Alderney expert review- PDF, 1.73 MB, 93 pages
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