Staffs Uni academics central to government enquiry into deaths on Alderney
Experts from Staffordshire University’s Centre of Archaeology are playing a leading role in a government enquiry to determine how many people died on the Channel Island of Alderney during Nazi occupation.Lord Pickles, the UK’s Post Holocaust Issues Envoy, recently announced a review of the evidence into the numbers of prisoners who died on the island which has been subject of considerable speculation.
The camps in Alderney were significant in the history of the Holocaust because they were sited on British soil. Lord Pickles has now appointed a team of eleven independent and
