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correspondence, Shapcott suggested to the War Crimes Branch of the Treasury Solicitor’s Office that the crimes perpetrated on Alderney should be dealt with in a similar fashion to those perpetrated at Bergen-Belsen because they occurred in an area liberated by the British and on British territory. 85 However, soon after, Haddock was replaced. Writing once again to Shapcott, he stated that: the investigation of atrocities on that island has been continued by Captain Pantcheff of M.I.19 who
7021, Opis 149, Delo 167, ‘The Island of Alderney’, 3 July 1945; TNA, WO311/11, ‘Letter from Brigadier Shapcott to Major Haddock’, 28 May 1945. 17 Ibid. 18 T.X.H. Pantcheff, Alderney Fortress Island (Sussex: Phillimore, 1981), p. 9; TNA, WO311/11, ‘War Crimes’, 14 June and 16 July 1945; TNA, WO311/11 ‘Channel Islands’, 2 June 1945; M. Bunting, The Model Occupation – The Channel Islands under German Rule 1940–1945 (London: Harper
instead have been characterised by safety and quiet’, Soviet POWs were subjected to terrible war crimes because they were viewed as ‘mortal enemies’ by the Germans. 53 Having escaped or committed another crime while incarcerated in POW camps in mainland Europe (where they first experienced deplorable conditions), some of the men sent to Alderney were arrested and treated as civilians. 54 The high mortality rate among this group can in part most likely be attributed to the fact that ill-treatment of Soviet