A second group, numbering about 100,000, included workers brought to Germany after 8 September 1943; a small number of them (a few thousand) had accepted job offers in the Reich advertised through propaganda by the offices opened in occupied Italy by the General Plenipotentiary for the Employment of Manpower (Generalbevollmächtigter für den Arbeitseinsatz, abbreviated to GBA), Fritz Sauckel, so in their case we cannot speak of direct coercion. Others, the absolute majority, were called up by post, in a way similar to that used for military service, or were enrolled as being eligible by age for military service, but also…
