European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I had to take a piece of liver off my jacket afterwards, because he had shot them at point-blank range.
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I asked him why he killed them, since they had surrendered and were our prisoners.
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But the driver called me over and showed me there were three holes in their jeep.
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We were free, but there were too many things we had to sort out and too many had died.
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It wasn’t a happy day. Fiorello died right next to me. We had been friends since we were kids.
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The curtain of the Theatre Valli
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The theatre curtain.
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That was really a great moment for us. We’ve always been proud of it.
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We had a comrade employed as a technician at the Timo offices. He was also our informer.
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When the Germans arrived in Reggio Emilia they took hold of a part of the building
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and set their offices there.
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Italians took care of normal Italian work.
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They also had to decode messages in cipher coming from Germany.
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After they were spending the whole day working side by side,
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our informer developed a sort of friendship with the Germans.
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And sometimes the Germans would even talk about the orders they were receiving.
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Our informer found out about an order sent from the central headquarters in Berlin.
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They were to take away Reggio Emilia’s theatre curtain. It had been crafted by the great painter Chierici.
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They should take it to Bologna, then to Berlin. It was a specific order, to be carried out urgently.
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Our informer came to my house. He knew I was involved in the Resistance, and told me about this:
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