Sixty quarrymen and 20 auxiliary workers worked at the quarry, which lay 3 km from the villages.

Thus, increasing numbers of French auxiliary workers had to be used, which naturally brought with it the danger of espionage and sabotage.

The non-German auxiliary workers in the extermination camps, for example, were mostly Ukrainians and Balts.

By the spring of 1944, some 103,000 had declared themselves ready to serve in Germany or the Italian Social Republic, as combatants or as auxiliary workers.

Not least among them were the coloured Frenchmen employed since mid-1942 as auxiliary workers in the dockyards Moroccans, Tunisians and other former members of French colonial territories, now dissolved, who were necessarily opposed to the Third Reich on racial grounds.

On the one hand are employers' most important workers, possessing most of the central skills on which the organization depends; on the other are auxiliary workers with fewer specific skills and less security of tenure in their jobs, the latter including most of the women workers.

Anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists had 3.6 blood contacts per 100 procedures; other nurses and technicians participating in surgery had a rate of 2.7; people working in the operating room but not participating in surgery had a rate of 2.4, and auxiliary workers had a rate of 5.8 contacts.