Flying over the English Channel, the island of Alderney first appears as a tiny dot, a jewel in the blue sea under a cloudless blue sky. It was here, 80 years ago, Nazis invaded and dubbed Adolf Island.
Lord Pickles has ordered the investigation into the number of Jews murdered on Alderney, a tiny British possession in the Channel Islands which was occupied by the Nazis for most of WW2.
The memo was written by intelligence officer Captain Theodore Pantcheff for the Government after the liberation of the Channel Islands following Nazi Germany s defeat in 1945.