European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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“You’re lucky to be in the Army, since in the past few days Pattaccini, Boiardi and others were arrested”.
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They were all people I used to be implicated with in our activities,
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and my poor mother was telling me this openly. But that’s exactly why I was arrested.
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I never managed to get that letter back. Wherever I was taken, the letter seemed to follow me.
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You see, we all used to deny knowing someone, but I couldn’t, since the names were written on the letter.
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Then, one morning, we left from the train station.
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I had already been reduced to the ranks:
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they had taken everything from me and that day I was slightly shabby and hadn’t shaved.
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As we set off, those who were on the railcar with us were curious.
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On other occasions, such as the day I was interned,
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when there were eighteen of us, we had a whole railcar for ourselves, so there was no one else.
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This time, however, the railcar was full, so people began to ask me what I had done,
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and I did what I could to have them do so.
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I became the star of the railcar, everybody handed me something,
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cigarettes and so on, and the Carabinieri didn’t know what to say.
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Their problem was that they didn’t have a place to hide me in,
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so they couldn’t do anything if someone offered me a cigarette.
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Once we arrived in Florence, however, the Carabinieri decided to get off and change train.
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Later I understood that they did this to prevent me from talking to the people that were on the first train.
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The other one – from Bologna to Reggio Emilia – was a lot less crowded.
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