AN internationally published expert has been appointed to advise the inquiry into Nazi atrocities committed in Alderney during the Second World War.
News of Professor Anthony Glees’s appointment was announced by Lord Eric Pickles, who is the UK Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues.
While it is widely recognised that Alderney was host to labour camps, with hundreds of fatalities among the slave workers brought to the island during the Occupation, it has never been agreed how many people died as a result of the German occupying forces’ work there.
Lord Pickles said: “I am delighted to announce that Professor Anthony Glees has agreed to become my personal adviser on the review of the numbers of slave labourers and prisoners murdered by the Nazis in Alderney.
“Professor Glees is recognised as a nationally and internationally published expert on European affairs, the British-German relationship and security and intelligence questions, [and is] the author of numerous books and scholarly studies.”
