Graves at the site of the only Nazi concentration camp in the British Isles could be destroyed next year because of a major energy initiative between France and the UK, co-financed by the European Union.
The Alderney concentration camp complex on the British Channel Islands included two labour camps and two concentration camps. Russian, French and Jewish inmates were kept there, with hundreds dying there over the course of the war.
According to an archaeological report leaked to the Sunday Times, a planned link-up between French and British energy grids, via Alderney, has already “severely damaged” the main burial ground for prisoners on the island due to initial drilling.
“Greater damage” is foreseen if the France-Alderney-Britain energy link-up (FAB) goes ahead, with the authors of the report urging that “drilling and excavation work must immediately cease”.
