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An internationally respected professor has been appointed to advise on the inquiry into Nazi atrocities committed in Alderney during WWII.
News of Professor Anthony Glees' appointment was announced by Lord Lord Eric Pickles, who is the UK Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues.
"I am delighted to announce that Prof Anthony Glees has agreed to become my personal advisor on the Review of the numbers of slave labourers and prisoners murdered by the Nazis on Alderney," he said.
"Professor Glees is recognised as a nationally and internationally published expert on European affairs, the British-German relationship and Security and Intelligence questions, [and] the author of numerous books and scholarly studies."
While it is internationally recognised that Alderney was host to labour camps, with hundreds of fatalities among the slave workers brought to the Bailiwick during the Nazi Occupation, it has never been agreed how many people did actually die as a result of the Occupying Forces work in Alderney.
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— Lord (Eric) Pickles (@EricPickles) January 3, 2024
I am delighted to announce that Prof Anthony Glees has agreed to become my personal advisor on the Review of the numbers of slave labourers and prisoners murdered by the Nazis on Alderney.
Professor Glees is recognised as a nationally and internationally… pic.twitter.com/qCkIOcw021
The IHRA has a five year plan for Alderney to safeguard remnants of the Lager Sylt camp was launched in 2019, when Lord Pickles and others visited.
That work is part of a wider initiative to legally protect numerous holocaust sites internationally with digital records created to encourage young people to become engaged with “their Holocaust heritage.”
In 2021, eight recommendations were made to safeguard Alderney's sites of interest:
Improve mapping, liaising with the Land Registry to ensure sites relating to the German Occupation are included
Produce a dedicated website about the site
Provide education materials for schools
Ensure the four labor camps and other sites of historic interest are "listed"
Stage an exhibition (virtual or in-person)
Provide signage at all sites
Mark the boundary of the burial site on Longis Common
Provide new exhibits for the Alderney Museum
At that time, Dr Gilly Carr was the Alderney representative to the IHRA but she was removed last year after footage emerged of her describing Alderney people as "hostile" to the work.
She apologised for these remarks saying they had been made at a closed meeting and were not intended to be heard by a wider audience.
She said she "regretted" the words she had used.
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