Overview

• SS guards at Lager Sylt on Alderney tied prisoners to tipper trucks and shot them for entertainment on Sundays, according to the documentary’s findings.
• The head of the SS contingent, Otto Hogelow, offered guards extra leave, food and cigarettes for every five prisoners they killed.
• Ukrainian prisoner Giorgi Zbovorski witnessed the executions during his 18-month internment in 1942, and his daughters recount his testimony in the film.
• A 2024 expert review coordinated by Gilly Carr determined that more than 1,000 slave labourers likely died on Alderney under Nazi oversight.
• Ghosts of Alderney is scheduled for release later this year to draw attention to these previously overlooked Channel Islands atrocities.