European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Then I finally came home from confinement.
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I had been given some documents which I was supposed to bring to the police.
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When I went there, I knocked on the door (we already knew how it worked)
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and the person inside asked me who I was.
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As I replied “Porta”, he told me to go out.
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I knocked again, and he sent me out again, for three times.
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Finally, he told me: “Don’t you know that when you come here you must give the Roman salute?”.
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I replied that I had just come back from almost four years of confinement for a lot less,
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and that I would rather be sent back there than have to obey to him.
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He eventually told me to go home, but it gives you an idea ...
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Arrest while in the army
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There was one rule back then.
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At Reggiane we manufactured airplanes
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– you can still see one of the airplanes we made, it’s at the Reggio Emilia airport –
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so the young workers of Reggiane who were called into the Army were entitled to serve in the Air Force,
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while those who worked at Lombardini Motori, manufacturing ship engines, usually served in the Navy.
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I was called up for military service, went to Bologna and then to Orvieto, where I completed the recruit training.
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After that, we were transferred to different places.
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I was sent to an airport near Rome, in a small village called Furbara.
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Our units were sent to mount guard in Rome,
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