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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Martin Bright and Antony Barnett

‘No more cover-up’: Nazi concentration camps on Channel Island finally to be officially investigated

Russian graves on Longy Common in Alderney, photographed during the second world war.
Russian graves on Longy Common in Alderney, photographed during the second world war. Photograph: Northcliffe Collection/ANL/Shutterstock

The full horrors of the only Nazi concentration camps to exist on British soil will finally be investigated in an official government inquiry, the Observer can reveal.

Eighty years on from one of the darkest episodes in British history, the government is to carry out a review into the numbers of prisoners murdered by the Nazis on Alderney, the tiny Channel Island and British crown dependency.

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