European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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During a fight we were to defend ourselves from behind the shelters.
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The command was to remain quiet and calm and to wait until the commander yelled charge (‘juris’).
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We were to wait for the enemy to approach within 20 meters and then each man was to pick his own target enemy.
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We would all charge together. Then something unexpected happened.
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Of the 300 men on our side the enemy was expecting at least 100 to die.
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But when the Germans approached, not 20 meters away but rather 40 meters,
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the guy behind the machine-gun started firing the machine-gun too soon.
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We all charged at that moment, all frantic, all in a rush.
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We were suddenly inside the German lines, which were well organized according to the logic of a military attack.
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The 300 young men charged among them and provoked such havoc
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that the Germans were so surprised they didn’t even shoot.
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Had they shot at us they would have also been shooting at their own people, because we were among them.
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We broke through their lines without a fight.
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Instead of 100 of our men dying, only two fell, two were wounded and one was taken captive.
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Confinement; Surrender of Italy
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At one point, I experienced some sort of metamorphosis, like in Trieste
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when the fascist spat in my face and I identified everyone who spoke Italian as a fascist.
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The civilian population brought me to recognize that it is unjust to condemn
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or declare an entire population merely for what is expressed through their political, military or other representatives.
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I began to understand that Italians, no less than us, are quite disparate.
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