The inmates in RSI prisons and penitentiaries, for both common and political crimes, were targeted for the mass recruitment of workers to send to the Reich. An initial agreement between the RSI Ministry of Justice and the German rapporteur for Justice in Italy of the Ambassador Rudolf Rahn, Günther von Hackwitz, was reached at the beginning of June 1944. It envisaged taking inmates who had received a final sentence from Italian penitentiaries and transferring them to the prisons of the Reich to continue their sentence as forced labourers for various industrial projects. The plan materialised on 26 June 1944 with…
