Answer Miep Gies: "Initially they were rather friendly, but soon they started, at first on a voluntary basis, to interest Dutch people to work in Germany (German men were needed at the various fronts). When the number of workers remained low they conducted razzia's, taking people off the street and from home, (these razzia’s were simular to the ones who picked up Jews although the Jews were sent to the death camps), marching them to the railway station and shipping them to the factories and other workplaces in Germany to do forced labour for the Germans."