In Liguria, a region characterised by an industrial economy and an unproductive countryside, ALL the practices introduced by the occupying forces and by the Italian Social Republic to drain manpower for the Reich were adopted with varying intensity over time and from place to place: encouragement of voluntary enlistment direct transfer of manpower by companies conscription call-up of some age groups of those eligible for military service Given the poor results achieved in relation to their objectives, the Nazi-Fascists resorted to the most brutal forms of coercion: raids during roundups targeting partisans, in factories and among strikers urban dragnets targeting…
