What is Lager Helgoland?
{{coord|49|43|6|N|2|12|48|W|scale:2000|display=title}} '''Lager Helgoland''' was a [[Nazi concentration camps|Nazi concentration camp]] on [[Alderney]] in the [[Channel Islands]], named after the [[Frisian Islands|Frisian Island]] of [[Heligoland]] ({{lang-de|Helgoland}}), a former British possession handed over to Germany in 1890. The Germans built four [[Alderney concentration camps|concentration camps]] on Alderney, run as subcamps of the [[Neuengamme concentration camp]] (in [[Hamburg]], [[Nazi Germany|Germany]]). Each subcamp was named after one of the [[Frisian Islands]]: *[[Lager Norderney]] at Saye, *[[Lager Borkum]] at Platte Saline, *[[Lager Sylt]] near the old telegraph tower at La Foulère and *''Lager Helgoland'', in the northwest corner of the island. 700 people died in the [[Alderney concentration camps]] (out of a total inmate population of about 6,000). These were the only Nazi concentration camps on [[United Kingdom|British]] soil. It was organised by the [[Schutzstaffel|Schutzstaffel - SS-Baubrigade I]]–which was first under supervision of the [[Sachsenhausen concentration camp]] near Berlin; and from mid-February 1943 under the Neuengamme camp in northern [[Germany]].<ref>{{Citation |author=Staff |title=Verzeichnis der Konzentrationslager und ihrer Außenkommandos gemäß § 42 Abs. 2 BEG |publisher=[[Federal Ministry of Justice (Germany)|Bundesministerium der Justiz]] |date=1967-02-23 |accessdate=2008-09-26 |url=http://bundesrecht.juris.de/begdv_6/anlage_6.html |quote=6a Alderney, Einsatzort der I. SS-Baubrigade Sachsenhausen, ab Mitte Februar 1943 Neuengamme |archive-date=2006-07-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060716014031/http://bundesrecht.juris.de/begdv_6/anlage_6.html |url-status=dead }} {{in lang|de}}</ref> It was used by the [[Nazi]] [[Organisation Todt]] [[forced labour]] programme, to build [[bunker]]s, gun emplacements, [[air-raid shelter]]s, and concrete fortifications. ''Lager Helgoland'' was in the northwest corner of Alderney. The ''Borkum'' and ''Helgoland'' cam