​​The contrasting experience in Jersey of the forced labourers from western Europe, and that of the Soviet slave workers, can be illustrated by an advertisement placed by a Spanish worker encamped at Lager Mölders in March 1942 asking for someone to do his weekly laundry. Forced workers received payment for their labour, had the freedom to receive visitors to their camps and could leave camps outside working hours provided they observed curfew. Such basic freedoms were not granted to the Ukrainian, Russian and Belarus nationals who, as the Occupation progressed, were increasingly penned in behind barbed wire and constantly under threat of receiving brutal treatment for no reason whatsoever.

​Additionally, it is rumoured that ​Lager Mölders​ was for a time staffed by Ukrainian Organisation Todt overseers who treated their countrymen imprisoned there even more harshly than the German overseers. Many Jersey farmers had a forgiving attitude towards the desperately hungry, abused Soviet workers, although the patience of some eventually gave out when their precious rabbits and food stocks disappeared overnight. Michael Ginns relates an incident: ‘She set a trap…with a length of cord running from the henhouse to a pile of saucepans at the top of the stairs; at about 2.00am she caught a Russian red-handed and chased him off with a broom. The following day she went to Lager Mölders to tell the Lagerkommandant to keep his workers under tighter control.’

​Undertakers’ records reveal that two Soviet slave workers died at ‘La Point’ in the Parish of St Ouen in March 1943. That location may be Rue de la Pointe which is near to Lager Mölders and the German Naval Artillery and Range-finding Position (MP3) at Les Landes. Wassili Korontum, born in Winniza, Ukraine, on 22 August 1908, died on 22 March 1943. Ivan Taraskin, born in Kamenka, Russia, on 22 March 1914, died on 25 March 1943. No details of the circumstances are provided so it must be assumed that the deaths were the result of accidents in dangerous working environments and/or the cumulative effect of undernourishment, overwork and mistreatment.

​One of the camp barrack huts was for many years used as the clubroom of St George’s Church Club, and later as a potato store, until it was destroyed in the great storm of 1987.