Over 80 years ago during World War II, with the retreat with the British with her Allies at Dunkirk, the British relinquished control of the Channel Islands to the germans in an induced trade–a chess sacrifice trading territory for the escape of British Army units, on one such Island the germans built a Concentration camp, that was Aldenbury, note this was not a Death Camp, but instead a camp setup on german racial lines and run with a Commandant called “Stein” or stone, how appeals and requests were meant to be treated – like talking to a “stone”. I am uncertain, if British Citizens were relocated by the germans, to Continental Europe and ultimate life ended in a Death Camp, the mere prospect, of denying freedom and liberty as well as learning of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by the British and what was learnt of the atrocities that went on there, was I believe enough for the then British sovereign, King George VI to it has been suggested wore the Star of David, in the form of a navy service medal, in solidarity with the Jewish people at the conclusion of WW2.
While The germans operated mainly death camps, however, there was the Dutch camp of Vught, also Dachau in Southern germany and dare I say it there was also Theresienstadt in Terezín, Czech Republic, german model camp. I can not identify when Aldenbury was liberated, but believe it was sometime after June 6th 1944 or thereafter the D-Day invasion.
If Aldenbury was anything like Dachau, Vught, or Theresienstadt, why did the Germans employ four concentration camps? Significance of the number four, by Jewish site: https://torah.org/learning/yomtov-pesach-5757-vol3no03/ May imply “Mission Accomplished” – the evil one hitler’s message, that these concentration camps were his life’s work complete or come into fruition, the destruction of the Jewish people. Monsterous if correct.
The price for peace is eternal vigilance – believe adapted by Churchill from a phrase adapted by John Philpot Curran
Picture reenactment of German occupation of Aldenbury during WW2 1940-1945
According to Google AI:
Aldenbury, which is actually Alderney, was occupied by german forces from July 2, 1940, until the end of the occupation on May 16, 1945. This five-year period saw Alderney converted into a german fortress, with thousands of slave laborers brought to the island to construct extensive fortifications, bunkers, and tunnel complexes.