European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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like the guy who told on me, a baker whose name was Montermini.
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He was sentenced to fifteen years by the special court, and served quite a few of them.
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We were the last ones, and our sentences were lighter: as for myself, I was sentenced to four years of confinement.
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Nobody defended you, it was only up to you to stand up for yourself.
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In any case, when you got into the movement you were aware that there would not be much you could do:
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we all knew that if we got caught we would end up doing a couple of years.
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It came to no surprise.
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I spent two months in the San Tommaso prison, in Reggio Emilia,
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before they were forced to transfer us to make room for new inmates.
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We were 18 or 19, all fettered to the same chain.
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Our families had been told we would be at the station,
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so once we got there they had come to see us, and some of them were crying:
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we had to pretend everything was ok and force a smile in order to make it easier for them.
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When we arrived in Castelfranco, the warden came over and asked the sergeant, who was in charge of the guards,
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where they were supposed to put us, since the prison was also full.
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He asked where we came from, and when he was told we were from Reggio Emilia, he said:
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“If it was for me, I would just dump them in a cesspit”.
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Very funny, isn’t it?
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Although we had not done anything to be punished, they ended up putting us in confinement cells.
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The prison was full, but they had these special cells where they could fit one or two of us,
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