Lager Sylt was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney in the British Crown Dependency in the Channel Islands.[1][2][3] Built in 1942, along with three other labour camps by the Organisation Todt, the control of Lager Sylt changed from March 1943 to June 1944 when it was run by the Schutzstaffel - SS-Baubrigade 1 and Lager Sylt became a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp (located in Hamburg, Germany).
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Lager Sylt
Concentration camp
Plaque remembering the Alderney camps
Location of Lager Sylt within Channel Islands
Location
Alderney, Bailiwick of Guernsey
Built by
Organisation Todt
Operated by
Schutzstaffel - SS-Baubrigade 1
Commandant
Karl Tietz
First built
1942
Operational
March 1943 - June 1944
Inmates
Jewish, Eastern European, Spanish and Russian enforced labourers
Killed
400+[4]
Liberated by
British Army
^"Hidden atrocities of Nazis at concentration camp on British island finally come to light". Live Science. 1 April 2020.
^"Nazi concentration camp Sylt on island of Alderney revealed by archaeologists". Fox News. 2 April 2020.
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