European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Is this an area you can leave without a sentinel?"

So when they came closer i woke up and said:

"It's me, I'm here. My tooth aches ..." "Ok", they said, "let's talk about it tomorrow".

On the next day there was a big meeting at the Gabellina restaurant

to decide on my punishment.

I should have said that because of the tooth pain

I didn't feel comfortable with doing a night shift,

but the discipline we'd been taught was stronger,

I just wasn’t able to go to one of my comrades and ask him for a change.

It was my turn and I had to do it.

So I was sentenced to do one day of "stake".

They cleaned a plant where we were staying

because even there we had to be very careful, make no noise,

because we could see the street but they could also hear someone speaking there.

Well, i passed all day tied to the stake

and at night everybody was making fun of me.

Everybody was laughing because falling asleep in such a dangerous place was really something ...

I remembered this episode well and the next times

when we had to decide what to do I didn't accept to do it

when I didn't feel comfortable with, I didn't want to make a fool of myself once more.