The camp is located in Alderney – one of the Channel Islands part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey – and was unknown even to World War 2 researchers. As the conflict came to a close, small German camps on the island were dismantled and later sunk into the earth. But archaeologists have reconstructed Lager Sylt camp, one of the Nazi camps on the island, and retold the story of its brutal history in the journal Antiquity published this week. Author of the study Caroline Sturdy Colls – an archaeologist with expertise in Holocaust sites and author of the journal – told of how she had initiailly not heard of the camps.
She said that evidence for the crimes committed at Lager Sylt had been “physically and metaphorically buried”.
Mrs Sturdy Colls said: “As a British citizen and a researcher, I hadn’t heard about the atrocities perpetrated on Alderney during World War II until I was doing my Ph.D. research.
“I had a wider awareness of the fact that the Germans occupied the Channel Islands, but not really that they built those camps.”
In her attempts to unearth the old camps, Mrs Sturdy Colls faced resistance from local authorities.
One point of tension was a documentary about the camps called 'Adolf Island'. (more...)
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