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Alderney has been nicknamed "the island of silence", due to the fact that little is known about what occurred there during the occupation. The rest of the island was heavily fortified, mainly through the slave labour of the camp inmates.
The prisoners were from [[Russia]] and Europe, including, [[Second Spanish Republic|Spanish Republican]]s. Some of the few remaining unevacuated Alderney natives also found themselves in there.
The States {Alderney's governing body) decline to commemorate the sites of the four labour camps, local historian Colin Partridge feels this may be due to the locals' desire to dissociate themselves from the accusations of collaboration. A faded memorial plate, tucked away behind the island's parish church, vaguely mentions 45 Soviet citizens who died on Alderney in 1940-45, without saying how they died and why.
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