The British government announced a landmark review last week into Nazi camp deaths on the island of Alderney, which the Germans occupied between 1940 and 1945. Officially, 389 marked graves have been found, but some estimates put the death toll much higher—from nearly double that number to even tens of thousands.
“Numbers matter because the truth matters. The dead deserve the dignity of the truth,” said Lord Eric Pickles, British post-Holocaust issues envoy. “The residents of Alderney deserve accurate numbers to free them from the distortion of conspiracy theorists.”
