The Ispettorato Militare del Lavoro (ILM),[1] informally called the Organizzazione Paladino[2] or Azione Graziani,[3] was an organization of the Italian Social Republic during World War II composed of volunteer labourers "to collaborate with the German authorities in repairing roads and railways, and in general carry out other work of either a civil or military nature.
With German agreement, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani appointed Paladino its first director on 6 October 1943.
Its headquarters was initially in Rome and it was under the authority of the ministry of defence.
[3] By the spring of 1944, the Organizzazione Paladino consisted of 50 battalions divided into centurie.
This was substantially less than the 120,000–286,000 Italians serving in the Organisation Todt in Italy.