Adolf Island The Nazi Occupation Of Alderney Caroline Sturdy Colls by Caroline Sturdy Colls, Kevin Colls 9781526149060, 1526149060 instant download after payment.

On 2 July 1940, the German military occupied the island of Alderney, located in the English Channel. What followed was an intensive programme of slave and forced labour, resulting in the construction of monumental fortifications that forever altered the landscape of this small island.
Drawing on more than a decade’s worth of historical, forensic and archaeological research, this book represents the first detailed investigation of the lives of the thousands of labourers sent to Alderney and the landscape they inhabited. Approaching sites connected to labourers as crime scenes and piecing together new evidence from archives across the world, it demonstrates that Alderney was closely linked to the wider system of forced and slave labour in Europe. It also argues that the island was the perfect ‘laboratory’ for the implementation of many aspects of Nazi ideology, including universal brutality, oppression of Soviet citizens and Jews, the rewarding of behaviours which limited the threat of so-called enemies of Germany and the exploitation of people as tools for economic gain.