European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I told him I wanted to be involved and I finally convinced him.
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He put me in touch with a guy called Corradini,
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whose name I actually found out only after the war, and that he was from Cavazzoli.
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From then on I became active in the underground movement.
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At the beginning I didn’t do much.
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I really started after the fall of Mussolini, on the 8th of September.
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After that we really began to look for weapons.
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I lived 500 meters away from the rail tracks.
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Nearly our whole Azione Cattolica group started to go there
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to slow the trains down before they arrived in Reggio.
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The soldiers on the train got off before the train left again.
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We took them to the rectory. We dressed some in plain clothes, others as priests.
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I dressed as an acolyte, since I was 19 but looked younger.
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I remember bringing a guy called Catellani all the way home to Sesso.
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He worked at the Reggiane. I took them to Rivalta. Then they could move on alone.
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I had an exemption from the military and went on working at the Reggiane until December.
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Then I received another call-up card.
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I know the Germans immediately occupied the most relevant spots in the city,
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the city hall, the Zucchi barracks, the Cialdini barracks.
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They also plundered the city.
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