The Italo-German agreements of 1937-38 regarding the sending of Italian workers to Germany offered a solution to the serious employment situation in Venice and the provinces, with the result that in 1940 the industrial workers present in the Reich already numbered 2000. On 12 September 1943 Venice and the surrounding area were occupied without resistance by the German troops. On 15 September an initial notice was issued which, among other things, ordered officers, excluding those who had already enlisted in the Wehrmacht, to report to the “Terminus” and “Germania” hotels by 8 pm on the same day. A second notice,…
