Review by Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media – Published June 13, 2025
New evidence of atrocities committed by Nazis on British soil is revealed in the documentary – The Ghosts of Alderney – Hitler’s Island Slaves – to be released by Wild Dog Films during 2025 (1).
The film premiered at a London, UK, press screening earlier this week (2-5).
Ghosts of Alderney is a documentary on the artist Piers Secunda’s research into the use of slave labour on the British Channel island Alderney during World War II. In 1941, Hitler’s forces took over the island. What followed was a brutal occupation.
Workers from across Nazi-occupied Europe were forced to build Hitler’s military defences on the Channel Islands.
Alderney had the worst conditions—prisoners were beaten, starved, shot, and buried in mass graves — a scene compared to Belsen concentration camp in later reports.
The film reveals new evidence of crimes on the island, including firing squads, mass killings, and contests between Nazi officers using prisoners for target practice, aiming repeatedly at body parts, until they died.
It also explores how the British government avoided prosecuting those responsible after the war.
Experts in the film suggest that this was part of a cover-up.
Historian Madeleine Bunting calls it “the biggest mass murder on British soil,” yet many facts are still unclear.
A recent UK inquiry confirmed over 1,100 deaths, though more are missing.
Through testimony and research, the film tries to tell the personal stories behind the numbers.
Secunda says, “These were real people, not just names on a list.”
Ghosts of Alderney: Hitler’s Island Slaves, , a production from Wild Dog, a British independent company, will be released later this year.
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Notes
1. Ghosts of Alderney: Hitler’s Island Slaves . Wild Dog . URL https://www.wilddogworld.com/ghostsofalderney/
2. Personal communication , Andrew Johnstone | Wild Dog .
3. Nazi guards shot prisoners for fun at Channel Islands camp, research says. Dalya Alberge | Guardian, June 10, 2025 . URL https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/10/nazi-guards-shot-prisoners-for-fun-at-channel-islands-camp-research-says
4. Press screening, Piers Secunda | Instagram . URL https://www.instagram.com/pierssecunda/p/DKxYiQaInOD/
5. Press screening, Piers Secunda | Instagram @itvnews report. URL https://www.instagram.com/p/DK11LwEI-yK/
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