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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Dalya Alberge

Nazi guards shot prisoners for fun at Channel Islands camp, research says

A visitor rests by the Odeon, a 15-metre high concrete naval range-finding tower that was built by forced labourers under the occupying Nazi forces in Alderney.
A visitor rests by the Odeon, a 15-metre high concrete naval range-finding tower built by forced labourers under the occupying Nazi forces in Alderney. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images

Guards at a prison camp on one of the Channel Islands entertained themselves at weekends by using prisoners for target practice, according to new evidence of Nazi atrocities committed there in the second world war.

On Sundays, the SS would regularly pick about a dozen men incarcerated in Sylt, the camp they ran on Alderney, transporting them to a nearby light-gauge railway, where they tied them to tipper trucks and amused themselves by shooting them.

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