European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Maybe he could have harmed me before, but at that point all I wanted was the war to be over and things to change.
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That’s what I did on the 24th. On the 25th all the joy I had inside burst open.
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War for me had started in 1935, with the campaign in Africa. I was ten then, and on April 25th 1945 I was twenty.
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The first thing I did was to throw our windows open.
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For the previous five years we had covered them with blue paper in order not to let any light into our houses.
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After that we found a flag and we all lined up to go to Reggio for a triumphant parade.
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Along the Via Emilia there were American soldiers on both sides.
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It was surprising for me to see blacks, as well as Indians with a turban around their head.
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The infantry had come behind the tanks.
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Then they lined up along the Via Emilia, from Rubiera to Reggio.
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When we got there, the partisans had already arrived from the mountains, too.
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As we reached the hospice, the partisan parade was stopped, since it was still dangerous inside the city.
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There were many sniper casualties in the following days.
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We simply turned around and went back home, but you can’t count the parades we did afterwards.
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