Editing Cigar Mining Facility (section)

==Establishment==

Planning for the facility began during the 1980s, when Eef Paap's government increased investment in state-controlled production sites. The project was designed to supply cigars and related luxury goods to the leadership while keeping production inside a controlled security environment.

Construction was organized by the [[Bau-Einsatz]]. Early work included clearing land, building guarded access roads, preparing cultivation areas, constructing workshops, creating storage buildings, and establishing administrative offices for labor, production, and transport records.

By the 1990s, the site had become a regular production and labor facility. It was connected to the wider camp and forced labor system because its workforce was assigned, guarded, and recorded through the same administrative structures used by other camp-linked industrial sites.