The only Englishmen ‘murdered by the Nazis on British soil’: A German soldier claimed an officer ordered the shooting of two men in Alderney after he ‘beat’ them, documents show

A Nazi soldier saw his colleague order the murder of two English men on British soil during World War II, according to newly unearthed documents.

The murders allegedly occurred in 1944 on Alderney, the northernmost of the Channel Islands.

The alleged murders were witnessed by a soldier named Corporal Kraus, who was stationed in a forced labor camp on Alderney.

If true, these would be the first known incidents of Nazis murdering Britons during the 1940-1945 occupation of the Channel Islands.

Kraus claimed to have witnessed how a special leader Richter killed two people in 1944.

According to the Mirror, Kraus wrote: “Richter had beaten two Englishmen and ordered them to be shot.”

He added that Richter then ordered his men to remove the crosses that marked their gravesite.

The documents were revealed in upcoming Sky History drama Hitler’s British Island, which airs next Tuesday.

The historian Dr. Helen Fry says on the show: “If this incident is true then it is the only known incident of British people dying at the hands of Nazis on British soil.”

A report commissioned by Lord Eric Pickles, Britain’s special envoy for post-Holocaust issues, concluded earlier this year that more than 1,000 people died during the Nazi occupation of Alderney.

German troops march through Alderney’s main street during the occupation

German soldiers parade through Marais Square in Alderney during their occupation of the Channel Islands in World War II

Group of German soldiers coming from the Channel Island of Alderney

A team of international experts found that between 641 and 1,027 people, including Jews, prisoners of war and some Roma who were shipped to the island, died as a result of the abuse.

According to official reports, for decades only 389 of the 4,000 forced laborers that Nazi Germany shipped to the island during the war died.

Workers were transported there from all over Europe to build fortifications as part of the German war effort.

They were housed in camps that bore many similarities to those in mainland Europe – and the workers were subjected to cruel living and working conditions, as well as executions.

The investigation was launched to refute conspiracy theories and establish the most accurate number of those who lost their lives on the island.

The ruined remains of the Sylt concentration camp on Alderney, which was destroyed by the fleeing Nazis in 1945

People visit a German bunker on the island of Alderney in Guernsey, where thousands of workers were killed during World War II

The remains of Battery Annes on Alderney, which was formerly an open naval gun battery position which was part of Hitler’s ‘Atlantic Wall’ defense against Allied invasion

Pictured: Houses overlooking the remains of a German trench system in Alderney, September 2023

A plaque commemorating the victims of German forced labor on Alderney. Four labor camps were built on the island and two were converted into concentration camps by the SS

The report also aimed to bring justice to those who died and ensure that this period of history and the Holocaust are “remembered fully and accurately.”

Forced laborers were forced to work as forced laborers under terrible conditions.

They were housed in four camps on the island: Heligoland, Nordeney, Borkum and Sylt.

By the end of the war, two of them had been converted into concentration camps by Hitler’s elite death squad, the SS.

After the Germans surrendered Alderney on May 16, 1945, it took another six months before any of the islanders could return due to the heavy fortifications surrounding Alderney.

Allied forces found more than 30,000 landmines that had to be laboriously defused and removed so residents could return to their homes.