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“But the station is closed at night”, he said. “I guess we’ll sleep in a shelter then”, we replied.
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“There are no shelters in Como, it’s a free city and we don’t get bombed”. What could we say?
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We wouldn’t have said anything else, but at that point he told us to go with him
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and bought us the ticket for the ferry that would have taken us all the way to the other side of the lake from Como, to Pizzo di Trona.
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He was truly an angel.
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Then he took us in front of a nice gate and rang the bell.
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He told the nun who came out that they should offer us a place to sleep, since we were there to visit out brothers who were in the army.
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They were really nice, they gave us a place to sleep and got us on the ferry at eight.
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We only made it to our destination at noon, as the ferry was quite slow and stopped in all those small villages.
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When we got there the soldiers were coming back from a mop-up.
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What do you call them, fascists? Or should I say “repubblichini” (supporters of the Republic of Salò), as we called them then?
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Anyway, they were all there apart from my brother.
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I was desperate, I immediately thought he had been killed in the mountains.
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But it wasn’t true, he simply didn’t take part in the mop-ups.
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He worked as a shoemaker or as a warehouseman, any type of job,
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whatever he could find so as not to go out on missions with the other soldiers.
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I finally found him and he was doing fine. Then I told him that they had to come back home, otherwise the partisans would kill them.
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Either they would be killed here or back home, because afterwards they would be considered responsible of terrible deeds.
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They were really scared, I guess they were brainwashed in order for them to be cruel, to imprison or kill people.
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Whatever they had to do, they were frightened.
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