en: ciril-zlobec: chapter-5: c: 5 title: "Confinement; Surrender of Italy" subtitles: sequence-1: s: 1 from: "00:00:00,20" to: "00:00:09,22" text: "At one point, I experienced some sort of metamorphosis, like in Trieste" sequence-2: s: 2 from: "00:00:09,22" to: "00:00:19,00" text: "when the fascist spat in my face and I identified everyone who spoke Italian as a fascist." sequence-3: s: 3 from: "00:00:19,00" to: "00:00:27,28" text: "The civilian population brought me to recognize that it is unjust to condemn" sequence-4: s: 4 from: "00:00:27,28" to: "00:00:40,20" text: "or declare an entire population merely for what is expressed through their political, military or other representatives." sequence-5: s: 5 from: "00:00:40,20" to: "00:00:47,24" text: "I began to understand that Italians, no less than us, are quite disparate." sequence-6: s: 6 from: "00:00:47,24" to: "00:00:57,09" text: "There are those to whom I’m close and there are those whom I find adverse, they are my enemy as I am theirs." sequence-7: s: 7 from: "00:00:57,09" to: "00:00:58,00" text: ~ sequence-8: s: 8 from: "00:00:58,00" to: "00:01:06,00" text: "Upon our return from Italian confinement, we all went together in groups." sequence-9: s: 9 from: "00:01:06,00" to: "00:01:24,25" text: "I remember that the day I returned from half a year of confinement, I washed, changed my clothes and headed off to join the Partisans." sequence-10: s: 10 from: "00:01:24,25" to: "00:01:34,16" text: "My family wanted me to stay at least a full day. No. I couldn’t wait." sequence-11: s: 11 from: "00:01:34,16" to: "00:01:42,16" text: "For me, joining the Partisans felt like discovering America." sequence-12: s: 12 from: "00:01:42,16" to: "00:01:49,13" text: "I wanted to become an active fighter and not just a sympathizer." sequence-13: s: 13 from: "00:01:49,13" to: "00:01:51,08" text: ~ sequence-14: s: 14 from: "00:01:51,08" to: "00:02:03,12" text: "The mood after the fall of fascism – formally on July 25th and later September 8th -" sequence-15: s: 15 from: "00:02:03,12" to: "00:02:10,10" text: "when Italy acceded to the unconditional truce," sequence-16: s: 16 from: "00:02:10,10" to: "00:02:22,05" text: "and which was when we arrived after a few days of travel from the Abruzzi to the Karst," sequence-17: s: 17 from: "00:02:22,05" to: "00:02:28,27" text: "the atmosphere was already in full swing." sequence-18: s: 18 from: "00:02:28,27" to: "00:02:35,09" text: "People were gathering and cheering about liberation, convinced that the war was over." sequence-19: s: 19 from: "00:02:35,09" to: "00:02:53,08" text: "So my comrades and I, we were anxious and eager to seize the day that we, too, would become fighters, before the war ended." sequence-20: s: 20 from: "00:02:53,08" to: "00:03:01,12" text: "It was a total illusion that with the capitulation of Italy, Germany would fall as well."