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That were the civil liberals, who wanted to fight the fascism together and with us it was the same.

At the basis nobody asked anymore: “Where do you come from?

Are you from the CY, the communistic youth, the socialist youth or the ’Bündische Jugend’?”

The question was: „What can you do against fascism?“

Because we followed the example of France,

the calling up of German intellectuals from Paris,

all dividing differences on the left had to be put aside,

to concentrate the strength against the fascist attack,

that the Germans and the Czechs were one against the other.

Mining a bridge; Sabotaging flow of German troops

We were receiving reports of troops coming back from the front, from Garfagnana,

on the road going through Fivizzano and the Cerreto pass and towards Castelnovo Monti.

They were sending new troops to the front, by that time they had been there two or three months.

There was only this small thing we used to call the “fognone” (big sewer).

By that time we had a lot of TNT since they dropped it from the airplanes.

We walked up there. There was a wonderful moon this night, a very calm night, like in springtime.

They had a machine gun nest not too far away,