​​Lager Udet consisted of 16 large barrack huts within a wired-off compound. The camp initially housed forced labourers from countries including Spain, Poland and Belgium, and later Soviet slave workers. Organisation Todt (OT) was the civil and military engineering body of Nazi Germany.

​Belgian worker Emile Boydens stated: ‘Although it was known as the Russian camp, there were lots of other nationalities in there too… I used to lie there [at night] and try to cover my ears from the screams and moans. Some of the OTs were bastards… They made their victims lift a big stone above their heads and run up and down. If they stopped, they’d be beaten with a length of rubber tubing or whatever else was handy.’

​Emile recalled often being made to work in the area of the camp from 00:50 to 23:00, under threat of brutality. ‘Part of our work was to bang the concrete to make it set firmly behind the wooden shuttering…One of the OTs [overseers] thought I was poking fun at him because he signalled for me to climb up the wall. When I got my hands on the ledge he trod on one of them as hard as he could and kept me pinned like that… [and then] he punched me in the face and sent me flying.’

​Undertaker’s records reveal that two workers died at Lager Udet and were buried in the Strangers’ Cemetery at Westmount: Andrej Schropow, born in Russia on 25 March 1908, died 20 October 1942; he was a worker for Heilmann & Littmann of Stuttgart. Wasilli Perkol or Perchol, born in Shitomar, Ukraine in 1898, died 19 September 1943. No details of the circumstances of their deaths are recorded, but it is likely they resulted from accidents in dangerous working environments and/or mistreatment by OT overseers.

​The land on which the camp was built was released back to the landowner in October 1944. When the barrack huts were dismantled by German tank troops to shelter Renault Char B tanks, they became infested with fleas.​