The German occupiers, in sometimes tense collaboration with the Italian Social Republic’s provincial head Armando Rocchi, engaged in massacres, attacks, and shootings, as well as roundups in the areas where partisan brigades operated, in order to provide forced labour for Germany. The individual cases of forced labour shipments would mainly concern rural territories in which at the same time there was also conscription for work, and would affect both the mountain and urban areas of the region. The capillary identification of those refusing to comply with conscription for work in the Reich, by the occupying forces, was aimed not only…
