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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.

Either they would be killed here or back home, because afterwards they would be considered responsible of terrible deeds.

They were really scared, I guess they were brainwashed in order for them to be cruel, to imprison or kill people.

Whatever they had to do, they were frightened.

He told me that they couldn’t run away, that there was no way for them to do so.

That was it, and we went back home. Later fortunately they were taken to Cento, near Ferrara.

They probably needed soldiers there, so they moved them.

I took my bicycle and brought him some clothes, and he was finally able to escape.

There were six men from Marola and they all managed to escape, two at a time, and make it home.

They wore plain clothes and ran away at night, just like everybody else, in order not to be caught by the Germans or the fascists.

Searching for the wounded near Albinea

They decided to come to Albinea

so I had to take care of a lot of things, because they always had something to set up.

The partisans of Modena were a very large group, and they also had to coordinate the Russians who were with them.

So there were many of us when we arrived at Lupo.

We left Secchio at night and made it to Valestra at dawn.

We stayed there the whole day and left again in the evening, arriving at Lupo at two thirty in the morning.

Leaving Valestra, as we were on the road that goes from Casina to Albinea, you could still see the long line behind.

There were so many people: the English, the paratroopers, the Gufi Neri, all the partisans from the Central Headquarters.

We stayed there the whole day and then the following night, at around midnight, they went down for the attack.