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Inquiry into #NaziCamps on #Alderney to examine if there was #BritishCoverUp
Government investigation into wartime atrocities on #ChannelIsland will ask why #Nazi perpetrators never stood trial in #Britain
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/04/inquiry-into-nazi-camps-on-alderney-to-examine-if-there-was-british-cover-up -
I'd always known about #ChrisFoss; back in the 80s it was impossible to buy #SpaceOpera without his art. But I never realised that, like me, he is from #Guernsey. Then I came across "Surrealist Defences" in the island museum. I recognised it, both as Chris Foss, and because that is the #German observation tower at L'Erée (pron "leRAY"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Saumarez. Here is a photo from as close as I could get to the view in the painting. #ChannelIsland #history #art #scifi #scifi_art