en: lidia-valeriani: chapter-11: c: 11 title: Liberation subtitles: sequence-1: s: 1 from: "00:00:00,20" to: "00:00:07,25" text: "On the 25th of April, in Modena, we were free since we had already liberated ourselves on the 23rd or the 22nd." sequence-2: s: 2 from: "00:00:07,25" to: "00:00:08,26" text: ~ sequence-3: s: 3 from: "00:00:08,26" to: "00:00:13,08" text: "I want to mention the only thing that I didn’t manage to do, as the liberation came right after." sequence-4: s: 4 from: "00:00:13,08" to: "00:00:17,10" text: ~ sequence-5: s: 5 from: "00:00:17,10" to: "00:00:27,01" text: "We stayed up all night to prepare a map," sequence-6: s: 6 from: "00:00:27,01" to: "00:00:42,23" text: "illustrating where the units had to leave from, the squads in our area, where the various GAPs were." sequence-7: s: 7 from: "00:00:42,23" to: "00:00:48,07" text: "We did this for our GAPs, the SAPs did the same for their SAPs." sequence-8: s: 8 from: "00:00:48,07" to: "00:00:59,06" text: "Others came down from the mountains, and they also had places to liberate." sequence-9: s: 9 from: "00:00:59,06" to: "00:01:00,21" text: ~ sequence-10: s: 10 from: "00:01:00,21" to: "00:01:06,04" text: "We stayed up all night to prepare this," sequence-11: s: 11 from: "00:01:06,04" to: "00:01:16,22" text: "this advance strategy to throw the Germans, the fascists, all the soldiers and armed men out of Modena." sequence-12: s: 12 from: "00:01:16,22" to: "00:01:21,17" text: ~ sequence-13: s: 13 from: "00:01:21,17" to: "00:01:24,11" text: "I had to go to Paganine" sequence-14: s: 14 from: "00:01:24,11" to: "00:01:25,17" text: ~ sequence-15: s: 15 from: "00:01:25,17" to: "00:01:34,01" text: "to transmit the orders, since it was always dispatch-riders who had to do this." sequence-16: s: 16 from: "00:01:34,01" to: "00:01:43,28" text: "There was no other way. We had no telephone." sequence-17: s: 17 from: "00:01:43,28" to: "00:01:51,12" text: "So I left with my orders." sequence-18: s: 18 from: "00:01:51,12" to: "00:02:01,26" text: "I had to go because we could already hear bombing in Bologna" sequence-19: s: 19 from: "00:02:01,26" to: "00:02:06,26" text: ~ sequence-20: s: 20 from: "00:02:06,26" to: "00:02:18,17" text: "and then some bombed around us too." sequence-21: s: 21 from: "00:02:18,17" to: "00:02:22,12" text: "In Modena this didn’t happen because we told them," sequence-22: s: 22 from: "00:02:22,12" to: "00:02:29,06" text: "but they bombed Reggio, and Cavriago, where the German headquarters were." sequence-23: s: 23 from: "00:02:29,06" to: "00:02:35,20" text: "I left and headed down Morane street to Paganine," sequence-24: s: 24 from: "00:02:35,20" to: "00:02:42,23" text: ~ sequence-25: s: 25 from: "00:02:42,23" to: "00:02:46,19" text: "a village towards Bologna, towards the mountains." sequence-26: s: 26 from: "00:02:46,19" to: "00:02:47,29" text: ~ sequence-27: s: 27 from: "00:02:47,29" to: "00:02:54,09" text: "When I got there, I went on for a kilometre and I found the Germans already retreating." sequence-28: s: 28 from: "00:02:54,09" to: "00:02:55,23" text: ~ sequence-29: s: 29 from: "00:02:55,23" to: "00:03:02,24" text: "Cows, carts, horses, bicycles, they had a bit of everything." sequence-30: s: 30 from: "00:03:02,24" to: "00:03:08,18" text: "They stopped me. I couldn’t move on." sequence-31: s: 31 from: "00:03:08,18" to: "00:03:17,10" text: "“I have to go”, I told them. We always found an excuse, an ill brother or telling them we lived there and had to get back." sequence-32: s: 32 from: "00:03:17,10" to: "00:03:23,21" text: "But there was no way. They wanted to take my bicycle and forced me to go back." sequence-33: s: 33 from: "00:03:23,21" to: "00:03:24,13" text: ~ sequence-34: s: 34 from: "00:03:24,13" to: "00:03:30,05" text: "I had to wait for the agreed time to meet with the other comrades," sequence-35: s: 35 from: "00:03:30,05" to: "00:03:36,25" text: "where all got together, all those who had left to transmit the orders." sequence-36: s: 36 from: "00:03:36,25" to: "00:03:42,26" text: "We met and then helped those who had to defend the city and those arriving." sequence-37: s: 37 from: "00:03:42,26" to: "00:03:48,22" text: "That was the only mission I didn’t complete."