Use of Italians disarmed in Southern France 1943

According to the book, "The Atlantic Wall, Rommell's plan to stop the Allied Invasion!" by Alan F. Wilt, he states that in 1943 after the disarming of Italian troops in Southern France that the 41,057 troops who remained were seperated into three groups.The first were those volunteering for service in the Wehrmacht (Kampfwillige or Arbeitswillige),those volunteering for construction or supply work but not in the military (Hilfswillige),and those who did not want to fight or work for the Germans (Militaringternierte).The Nazi authorities considered the" Militaringternierte" or interned as military prisoners and sent 10,225 of them to work in the armament factories.Does anyone know out of the "Hilfswillige" and "Kampfwillige or Arbeitswillige" how many vounlunteered for what group? Im not surprised that even though the "Militaringternierte" had no desire to fight or work for the Nazis they still wound up working for them.

 

Try the Commando Supremo web site. There are guys who have a amazing acess to Italian records and statistics.

 

If no one can help here I may have to do that LOL.

 

Here is where some went.


"The Monterosa Alpine Division was the first divisional unit of the new Italian Republican Army which was born on October 16th, 1943, when the Rastenburg Protocol was signed, allowing Marshal Graziani to raise four Italian divisions with 52,000 men.
19% of the Monterosa troops were former Italian Royal Army soldiers captured by the Germans after the September 8th 1943 armistice, and eventually released as they showed Fascist or anti-Allies feelings; the others were new draftees. The training activity in the German training grounds of Munzingen and Heuberg began in December 1943 and ended in July 1944 when the Division was sent to the Italian theater. Although the Monterosa officially was an Alpine-type unit, the troops never received mountain warfare training. Nonetheless, the training courses were intensive and demanding, after the best German tradition."

Comando Supremo: Operation Winter Storm

 

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