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  1. This cheeky bugger was stealing food from the table next to us (look at their beak) and when I turned my camera onto it , I caught it about to take off! Taken at the Braye Beach Hotel on Sunny Alderney
    #seagull #bird #wildlife #alderney #olympus #travel #braye #brayeBeachhotel #photography

  2. Was immer in den letzten Kriegsjahren auf den #Kanalinseln passiert ist: Vieles wurde vertuscht, totgeschwiegen oder mit ins Grab genommen.
    Mein Großvater (auf #Alderney in Gefangenschaft bis April 1946) hat Zeit seines Lebens nie darüber gesprochen.

    #Konzentrationslager

    nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1182634.

  3. Fort Chateau a L’Etoc, Alderney. Completed in 1855 and situated at the most northerly point of the island. Designed to mount 23 guns. During the German occupation of WW2, the 20mm Fkak Battery Einsidlerschloss was located in the fort. #ww2 #fort #fortifications #Alderney #history

  4. The British island of Alderney is divided over how to address its Nazi past.

    London wants to shed light on a dark page in history that has long been kept secret: the number of prisoners who died in the four concentration camps built on the small Channel island during the Second World War.

    lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article

    #UK #ChannelIslands #Alderney #History #Nazis #ConcentrationCamp #WorldWar2 #WW2 #WWII

  5. August 23 #writingwonders

    In your MC’s mind, what is the worst thing they have ever done.

    In terms of the framing of ‘Searching for the Sound of Riduna’, by far and away the worst thing my MC has done is spend six hours in Southampton airport waiting for the fog to clear on a remote island in the English Channel so a plane can be caught to enable a job to start that the MC is only doing because the boss suggested it. Six hours waiting for fog to lift.

    A close second is allowing the young woman in the Led Zeppelin t-shirt to slip away before she could give the leads she had hinted at earlier.

    #yalit #amwriting #writingcommunity #Riduna #Alderney #channelislands

  6. ‘The Holocaust happened on British soil’: Inquiry into​ Nazi camps creates bitter divide on Alderney.

    An official investigation of claims that many more people than previously thought died during Nazi control of the Channel Island has pleased some, but dismayed others.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a

    #UK #ChannelIslands #Alderney #Nazis #Holocaust #WWII #WW2 #WorldWarTwo #WorldWar2

  7. The UK's Channel Island Nazis inquiry is under pressure to find out why the perpetrators never faced justice.

    Thousands of people may have perished on Alderney during the second world war. Hundreds are known to have been killed when the Nazis occupied Alderney and set up slave labour camps, including at least one that was taken over by the SS to be used as a concentration camp. But their murderers never stood trial

    theguardian.com/world/2023/jul

    #UK #Alderney #WWII #WW2 #Nazis #Holocaust

  8. Have you ever heard of the existence of two #Nazi #concentration camps on the territory of a British Crown dependency (Channel Islands) during WWII? Codastory's Isobel Cockerell went to #Alderney to understand how it grapples with the horrors of its past:
    codastory.com/rewriting-histor