​​Documents held in Jersey Archive reveal planning for Lager Rommel was still underway in April 1943, when mains water was connected to the site. The camp eventually consisted of a large t-shaped building behind which were six wooden barrack huts.

​The huts were occupied by Soviet slave labourers who worked on the 60cm gauge railway in the area, on the construction of the anti-tank wall along the Royal Bay of Grouville, and at Les Maltières Quarry near Gorey Village. Those workers were hastily moved to France after the Allied invasion in Normandy on 6 June 1944.

​The camp lay empty for one month in July 1944 before it was repopulated by the German artillerymen of Batterie Schlieffen located near Verclut, overlooking Grouville Bay.