European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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in order not to be noticed by the farmers who worked nearby.
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When the motorbike approached we jumped in the middle of the street
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with our sub-machine gun pointed at him. He stopped the bike immediately and tried to take his gun.
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He managed to pull it out, but Fiorello hit him with the sub-machine gun.
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Fiorello then left with the motorbike, while we put the captain in an icehouse.
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At the time we had these ice-houses: people used to make holes in the ground,
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pave them and put snow in them, to use the ice in the cheese factories.
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At night we headed for the mountains with this blindfolded SS captain.
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We sent a dispatch to the Podestà again, telling him to inform the German headquarters
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that we had captured captain “whatever his name was”. On the same day the prisoner exchange was done.
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First partisan action; Cervi brothers
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The first engagement I took part in, we disarmed two German soldiers.
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They were by the railway tracks, on the Via Emilia railway bridge. They were really young.
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Fiorello had a gun, since he was a Carabiniere when he had escaped from Yugoslavia.
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I had a fake one he had made out of wood, which looked just the same.
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We sneaked behind these two boys, pointed our guns at their neck and got them to raise their hands.
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We took away their P38 guns. From then on we felt armed.
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We had a meeting in the fields with the Cervi brothers.
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They were worried and said that they wanted to go to the mountains.
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Their house at the time was a hideaway.
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