​​Organisation Todt (OT) was the civil and military engineering body of Nazi Germany. The conduct of the notorious OT Lager-Kommandant, Fritz Budrick, gave the camp a reputation for sadistic brutality. Undertakers’ records reveal that at least two workers died at the camp. Niklaj Kornijtschuk, born in 1918 in Kiev, Ukraine, died there on 19 October 1942, and Ivan Schamrai, born in Ukraine on 25 October 1912, died at Lager Immelmann on 25 October 1943.

​Islander Norman Le Brocq stated: ‘The Spaniards called it the leather camp. There were no Spaniards in it, it was totally a Soviet camp that one, one of the smaller camps. The camp commandant or whatever title you give him, was the most brutal of all the camp commandants over here and it was his pleasure most evenings, if he was in that kind of mood, to pick out one of the camp inmates, one of the slave workers and beat him insensible with a leather whip – known therefore by the Spaniards as the leather camp. It was notorious as the worst of the camps over here.’

​The OT overseers didn’t miss any chance to torment workers who were recovering from injuries or sickness and made them clean the lavatories. They were regarded as worthless ‘loafers’ and threatened with violence if they didn’t return to work.

​The large number of Soviet casualties amongst the OT workforce resulted in the token visit of Bishop Mèthode of the Russian Orthodox Church in Paris, which took place in March 1943. The Bishop visited the Strangers’ Cemetery at Westmount, St Helier, where the dead were buried, and consecrated the ground. He left two priests behind, one of whom visited Lager Immelmann on 24 September 1943.

​Lager Immelmann had been demolished by February 1945, and all traces of it were removed by the Rabet family who tenanted the farmland.​