​​The site, which was requisitioned by Organisation Todt (OT) the civil and military engineering body of Nazi Germany, on 22 July 1942, consisted of approximately 10 barrack huts housing mainly Spanish and Soviet labourers. They were made to assist with excavation and lining of German tunnel complexes in St Peter’s Valley and Beaumont Valley.

​A document in Jersey Archive corroborates it was not just men involved in forced labour in Jersey. A French woman attached to at Lager Schepke gave birth at the Maternity Hospital on 28 March 1943. Two months later, the baby was placed in Westaway Creche on instructions of Deputy Simon. It was agreed at OT headquarters in Midvale Road, St Helier, that maintenance costs would be deducted from the mother’s wages.

​​Jersey author Michael Ginns has noted that in addition to the principal labour camps, there were several sub-camps consisting of barrack huts located close to a particular work site. One was at Les Augurez in the Parish of St Peter, the same Parish in which Lager Schepke was located. At Les Augerez, Soviet slave workers transferred building materials from rail to road transport.

​Audrey Falle née Anquetil, who lived nearby, was a witness to the treatment of the Soviet slave workers: ​‘Well, they were making the railway line along here at that time and they [the workers] used to be brought the canteen at midday alongside the gate here…with watery food. They were all there with their mugs and some of them were barefoot. And this poor little boy was amongst them; I don’t know how old he was…and he used to come here and pick up the dog’s food…and he in fact took one of my coats that were hanging behind the door…we never did anything about it. But one day he didn’t come and he was up at Mrs Hubert’s and they [the overseers] were looking for him, and they went up there and they kicked him all the way down the road here, and I never saw him again.’

​One of the Lager Schepke barrack huts survived until the late 1990s; by that time, it had for many years served the Pegasus Breda Sports Club for table tennis.