Nazis on Alderney 'used prisoners for target practice'

Guards at a prison camp on the Channel Islands entertained themselves at weekends by using inmates for target practice, according to new evidence of Nazi atrocities committed on British sovereign soil during the second world war.

- Dalya Alberge

On Sundays, the SS would regularly pick about a dozen men incarcerated in Sylt, the camp they ran on Alderney, transporting them to a nearby light-gauge railway, where they tied them to tipper trucks – and amused themselves by shooting them.

Over the course of an hour or two, they would take aim at specific parts of a prisoner's body, wounding them repeatedly until they died.

This was regular entertainment for the SS, according to research.