LAGER BORKUM

'Lager Borkum' was one of the four Nazi labour camps on Alderney in the Channel islands. It was near the centre of the island, at Platte Saline, and was the smallest of the four; Helgoland and Borkum camps, were volunteer Labour Camps and the labourers there, were of course, treated better than the other two, although often harshly. It was used for German technicians and volunteers from different countries of Europe.
A number of former German soldiers of the 216th Naval Flak Battalion were tried for war crimes by the Dachau International Military Tribunal from 6 February -21 March 1946 (''US v Kurt Goebell et al''). They were charged with the unlawful execution of seven US Army Air Force personnel who had survived the crash of their damaged B17 on the island on 4 August 1944. Defendants included

★ Akkermann Jan J.

★ Albrecht Guenther

★ Geyer Karl

★ Goebell Kurt

★ Heinemann Heinrich

★ Krolikov.ki Walter

★ Mammenga Gustav

★ Meyer-Gerhards Klaus

★ Pointner Johann

★ Rommel Heinrich

★ Schmitz Johann Josef (sentenced to death, executed but exonerated of the crime in 1964)

★ Seiler Jakob

★ Weber Karl

★ Wenzel Erich (sentenced to death)

★ Witzke Heinz
It was named after the North Frisian island of Borkum.
For more information please see Lager Sylt