​​Emile Boydens, a Belgian forced labourer, was unlikely to forget his experience when working in the area: ‘Part of our work was to bang the concrete to make it set firmly behind the wooden shuttering. It was a boring and tiring job, and we were cracking jokes to make the time pass…One of the OTs must have thought I was poking fun at him for 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 with the full weight of his body. He then ordered me to climb up to where he was…and he punched me in the face and sent me flying.’

​Although barrack huts are not evident in wartime Royal Air Force (RAF) aerial reconnaissance photographs, descendants of forced workers recall their fathers speaking of them being located on the steep bank behind La Pulente Hotel, which would have formed the main part of the camp.

​Jerseyman John Wickings, a young van driver for Jersey Dairy Ltd., used to throw his packed lunch to hungry workers when passing through St Brelade. Once day in October 1943, while delivering milk at La Pulente, he witnessed a slave labourer being beaten by the Lagerführer (head of camp). Wickings went to a bungalow at the back of the hotel, from where he saw the young labourer being made to run repetitively around a circular cider apple crusher, whilst the Lagerführer stood by and hit him as he passed. When Wickings was noticed, a fight ensued between him and the OT man, until German Field Police were called and Wickings was detained for several hours. In the meantime, the Lagerführer resumed his sadistic routine, pouring water over the poor victim when he fell to the ground. Wickings received a two-month prison sentence for his intervention.

​Of the nine Spaniards who died in Jersey and were buried in the Strangers’ Cemetery at Westmount, St Helier, one was encamped at Lager Richthofen at the time of his death. His name was José Bengoschea Garin; he was born on 8 December 1896 and was buried on 27 October 1942. The firm of Kehl & Co., to which he was attached, settled the undertaker’s costs. The cause of death is unknown.