Lager Helgoland

Lager Helgoland

Lager Helgoland was one of the four Nazi labour camps in Alderney in the Channel Islands. It was situated in the northwest of the island. Helgoland and Borkum camps were volunteer Labour Camps. Lager Helgoland was filled with Russian Organisation Todt workers.

It was named after the North Sea island of Helgoland (English name:Heligoland), a former British possession handed over to Germany in 1890.

ee also

*Lager Sylt.
*List of subcamps of Neuengamme


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