The nature of Irene Wosikowski's resistance work completely changed after November 1942. Probably as a response to the landing of large numbers of Anglo-American troops in North Africa, the Germans dusted off and implemented plans for a "direct military occupation of southern France. Marseilles had till now been a principal transit point for refugees desperate to escape occupied Europe for reasons of race or politics, but now the escape channels dried up. Over the next few months German soldiers and Gestapo personnel became a common sight as military occupation took hold. Fluent German became a valuable asset, but the resistance activity involved in what was known as "enlightenment work" ("Aufklärungsarbeit") among the German soldiers was massively dangerous. At its simplest it involved distributing copies of the innocuously titled newspaper "Soldat am Mittelmeer" ("Soldier on the Mediterranean") to German military personnel, possibly by leaving copies on tables outside cafés where off-duty soldiers liked to gather. The newspaper comprised antifascist propaganda designed, with varying degrees of subtlety, to persuade German soldiers to lay down their arms.