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Maybe it wasn’t even right to fight back as we did,
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since guerrilla means attacking and withdrawing, coming back and so on.
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That time however it was decided to fight back jointly. We suffered many casualties in the end.
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Then the Germans took away more than a thousand men:
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all those who were able to work, and I think also a few women, were sent to Germany.
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That time there was a complete disbandment.
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After that, the Germans left,
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their division withdrew, but the garrisons on road 63 remained until the end of the war.
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We slowly recovered, difficultly,
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and I remember I stayed home around ten days because of this, helping my father,
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while my brother had gone away with "Frigio" and the Bedeschi unit. They were faster in getting back together.
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Sure, there were moments we were afraid,
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but actually, it was more about being irresponsible than afraid.
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When I think about it now, I realize that we could have done so much more without that much efforts and dangers.
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I’ve been afraid one night because I had never heard this German machine gun shoot,
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they called it “raganella” (tree frog): it could shoot so fast, so many bullets.
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That was really the only time my heart was pounding.
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Later I realized it was quite distant, but at the moment I thought it was there, a few steps away,
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this nasty sound in the silence of the night.
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I felt fear that night, at least for a short time.
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