Grave registers of deceased foreign Organization "Todt" workers who were buried in the following cemeteries:
a) FOULON CEMETERY, St. Peter PORT, canal island Gnernsey - 165
b) foreigner cemetery on the canal island Alderney - 105
c) St. Anna cemetery on the canal island Alderney - 55
d) Russian cemetery on the canal island - 243
Alderney (the bodies were exhumed through the Volksbund Kriegsgräberfürsorge (Organization to care for German war graves) in 1961 and moved to the soldiers' cemetery MONT DE HUISNES, France)
German Occupation
During World War II, Alderney gained a reputation for being the location of three German labour camps, Lager Noordeney, Lager Heligolond, Lager Borkum and the notorious SS Concentration camp Lager Sylt near the airport. With the population evacuated, it is thought that many hundreds of prisoners from eastern Europe (mainly Russians) died as slave workers, through mal-nutrition and sheer exhaustion. Even the birds are said to have fled, as occurred in Poland.
The liberating British forces in May 1945, found 319 named graves at Longis Common and another 64 in St Anne's churchyard. It is also rumoured that many more workers died and were buried in trenches or thrown off the cliffs. When the islanders returned, they found the island’s infrastructure and houses practically destroyed and reluctantly turned to Guernsey for financial help to rebuild it. As a result in 1949, the island’s constitution was amended to reflect their dependence on Guernsey and so ended many centuries of independence.
http://www.islandlife.org/history_ald.htm
