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Professor Anthony Glees has will be joining Lord Pickles Alderney Expert Review.
Lord Eric Pickles who is the UK Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues made the announcement on X (formerly Twitter).
Saying he is "delighted" with the appointment of Professor Glees, Lord Pickles wrote that he has "agreed to become my personal advisor on the Review of the numbers of slave labourers and prisoners murdered by the Nazis on Alderney".
NEWS ALDERNEY REVIEW
— Lord (Eric) Pickles (@EricPickles) January 3, 2024
I am delighted to announce that Prof Anthony Glees has agreed to become my personal advisor on the Review of the numbers of slave labourers and prisoners murdered by the Nazis on Alderney.
Professor Glees is recognised as a nationally and internationally… pic.twitter.com/qCkIOcw021
Lord Pickles described Professor Glees as "a nationally and internationally published expert on European affairs, the British-German relationship and Security and Intelligence questions".
While it is internationally recognised that Alderney was host to labour camps, with hundreds of fatalities among the slave workers brought to the Bailiwick during the Nazi Occupation, it has never been agreed how many people did actually die as a result of the Occupying Forces work in Alderney.
The IHRA has a five year plan for Alderney to safeguard remnants of the Lager Sylt camp was launched in 2019, when Lord Pickles and others visited.
That work is part of a wider initiative to legally protect numerous holocaust sites internationally with digital records created to encourage young people to become engaged with “their Holocaust heritage.”
In 2021, eight recommendations were made to safeguard Alderney's sites of interest:
Improve mapping, liaising with the Land Registry to ensure sites relating to the German Occupation are included
Produce a dedicated website about the site
Provide education materials for schools
Ensure the four labor camps and other sites of historic interest are "listed"
Stage an exhibition (virtual or in-person)
Provide signage at all sites
Mark the boundary of the burial site on Longis Common
Provide new exhibits for the Alderney Museum
At that time, Dr Gilly Carr was the Alderney representative to the IHRA but she was removed last year after footage emerged of her describing Alderney people as "hostile" to the work.
She apologised for these remarks saying they had been made at a closed meeting and were not intended to be heard by a wider audience.
She said she "regretted" the words she had used.
Pictured: The news of Professor Glees appointment was welcomed by some.
The appointment of Professor Glees has been met with some positivity from people commenting on X, however it has been suggested to Express that he has not been to Alderney yet.
Professor Glees has engaged in conversations with other people on the holocaust and Alderney on X with an apparent keenness to discuss only facts and not opinions.
A lot to say about this, esp the letter of March 1947. Its fundamentals are totally wrong.
— Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social (@AnthonyGlees) January 3, 2024
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