European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Many say: “we fought for nothing”. No!

We fought for a prosperous future.

Our struggle was valuable because we were living a life of sacrifice.

We had a lot, but

also wished that there may be just as much for others today.

Compared to what we had before, after the war we had so much:

we worked, we fought even afterwards, we built things, we worked day and night.

We had many positive outcomes.

Liberation

On the 25th of April, in Modena, we were free since we had already liberated ourselves on the 23rd or the 22nd.

I want to mention the only thing that I didn’t manage to do, as the liberation came right after.

We stayed up all night to prepare a map,

illustrating where the units had to leave from, the squads in our area, where the various GAPs were.

We did this for our GAPs, the SAPs did the same for their SAPs.

Others came down from the mountains, and they also had places to liberate.

We stayed up all night to prepare this,

this advance strategy to throw the Germans, the fascists, all the soldiers and armed men out of Modena.

I had to go to Paganine

to transmit the orders, since it was always dispatch-riders who had to do this.

There was no other way. We had no telephone.