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Only old bunkers and casemates such as this one remain.

The Alderney camps were camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during its World War II occupation of the Channel Islands.[1] Alderney island had four forced/slave labour sites, including Lager Sylt, the only Nazi concentration camp on British soil during the wartime occupation.[2]

  1. ^ Matisson Consultants, Aurigny ; un camp de concentration nazi sur une île anglo-normande (English: Alderney, a Nazi concentration camp on an Anglo-Norman island ) (in French), archived from the original on 2014-02-20, retrieved 2009-06-06
  2. ^ Owen, Brodie (2023-07-27). "Alderney WW2 deaths review aims to put conspiracies to rest". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2023-07-29. Retrieved 2023-07-29.

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