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Himmler ordered mass execution of prisoners in only Nazi camp on British soil, documents reveal
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Heinrich Himmler gave secret orders for up to 1,000 enslaved labourers to be shot in cold blood on the British island of Alderney, previously unpublished documents disclosed to the Observer reveal.
The direct written order by the head of the SS is the first known instruction to show that plans were drawn up to annihilate all of the occupants of the only Nazi concentration and labour camps to exist on British soil.
Although the public has been invited to submit evidence to the review, concerns over the “condescending” instructions given to potential contributors persuaded well-known wartime historian and author Ian Sayer to instead hand the SS documents from his archive to the Observer.
Dated 19 August 1943 and marked top secret, Himmler’s letter states: “Should there be – in the event of an attack – even the slightest sign, on the part of the prisoners, that they intend to cause trouble, you must act immediately and without ceremony, and shoot the culprits.
A separate letter, dated 15 September 1943, reveals that another SS officer – Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl – informed Himmler’s adjutant, Rudolf Brandt, that all paperwork relating to the order to kill on Alderney had been destroyed.
The same set of documents collected by Sayer reveal insights into the SS construction brigade charged with building up the Nazi’s defences on Alderney, with one passage applauding the work ethic of the enslaved labourers, saying “the prisoners’ productivity equalled that of German workers”.
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