Talk:Lager Borkum

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see lists of open tasks and regional and topical task forces. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.
Stub	This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the quality scale.
Additional information and associated task forces: This article is not currently associated with a task force. To tag it for one or more task forces, please add the task force codes from the template instructions to the template call.

Borkum was a camp built and operated by the Organisation Todt in 1942 at Platte Saline on the island of Alderney in the Channel Islands. It was named afyer one of the German Fresian Islands as were the other camps on the island - Sylt, Nordeney and Hlgoland.

Until its closure in May, 1944 it held Germans and Austrians who had fallen foul of the Nazi Party or who had been found guilty of criminal offences but who had skills and expertise required for - and used to assist in - the fortification of the island.

Unlike those held at the other camps, prisoners at Borkum were treated less harshly than were Jews and Slavic prisoners. Even so, several died from the privations to which they subjected.

The camp was burned to the ground two years later and all records pertaining to its inmates were destroyed by the occupying German military.