Dark Waters
Dark Waters: Alderney's Nazi Atrocities
Thursday, 17 April 2025 - 31 minutes
80 miles off the south coast of England, during World War Two, the Nazis shipped thousands of slave labourers to the island of Alderney.
They were forced to turn it into an impregnable fortress, a fixed battleship bristling with guns, at the forefront of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall.
The regime set up labour camps based on the harsh model used throughout the Reich.
Exactly how many died in these camps, and what happened to their brutal overseers, has been the subject of rumour and counter rumour for decades. Until now. As the Channel Islands mark the 80th anniversary of Liberation - or Homecoming as it's known in Alderney- Island FM’s Euan Mahy takes up the story.
