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The manpower crisis and its overcoming came a lot earlier than bombing. It got the leadership's attention during the 41/42 winter crisis and with Sauckel's efforts enough workers were brought in to make up for conscripted armaments laborers and achieve an expansion of production on top of that. On 1942 there was a lot of trouble integrating this workforce but by the time bombings began in 1943 there were already millions of foreign workers and their assimilation into the economy was in full swing. The Wehrmacht continued to bleed manpower but a powerful relief had been found.