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Nazi encampment featuring bunkers, trenches and gun stations up for sale on Channel Islands

A Nazi encampment from World War II is now up for sale on one of the Channel Islands, a British territory just off the northwestern coast of France.

The $48,000 site — known as Giffoine — is on the small island of Alderney and features seven acres of trenches, gun stations and two bunkers, according to Business Insider.

It was home to two dozen soldiers and three officers from Nazi Germany after being fortified between 1942 and 1944 as a part of Adolf Hitler’s Atlantic Wall strategy.

The Channel Islands, the largest of which are Jersey and Guernsey, are much closer to France (Alderney is just 10 miles from the Normandy coast) than to Britain and they became indefensible once France fell to Nazi Germany in June 1940.