European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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communist and Catholic family…
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If you had really applied Christianity we would have had no reason to join the Communist Party, you would have been the ones making justice.
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They can’t understand how anyone coming from a Catholic family
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that goes to Mass, that has baptized its children, whose father sings in church,
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whose family that has rebuilt the church of Santa Maria after the Germans had set it on fire,
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can join the Communist Party. There was this message of liberation.
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Otherwise who would have done it, nobody paid us for this…
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I worked for the Communist Party for 13 years and 6 months without social insurance contributions and without health insurance.
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And that’s fortunately because I was already rich, I had food on my table at home.
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Other comrades who were living the same life I was living had their wives working as maids, or on the rice-field, with children at home.
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That’s how we set up the Communist Party, not with the treasure of Dongo.
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Einige Deutsche bleiben
Einige Deutsche bleiben
Some Germans do not flee and marry in the villages -
Ich hatte nicht das Glück während der Befreiung nach Reggio Emilia zu kommen,
Ich hatte nicht das Glück während der Befreiung nach Reggio Emilia zu kommen,
I didn’t even manage to come to Reggio for the liberation -
weil sich einige deutsche Soldaten versteckt hatten und nicht klar war, was sie im Schilde führten.
weil sich einige deutsche Soldaten versteckt hatten und nicht klar war, was sie im Schilde führten.
because some German soldiers had hidden and we didn’t know what they were going to do. -
Das haben wir erst am nächsten Tag herausgefunden:
Das haben wir erst am nächsten Tag herausgefunden:
We found out the following day: -
sie waren dort geblieben um nicht mehr weiter kämpfen zu müssen,
sie waren dort geblieben um nicht mehr weiter kämpfen zu müssen,
they had stayed there because they were tired of the war, -
um nicht ihrer Truppe folgen zu müssen. Vielleicht hatten sie Angst im Fluss Po zu ertrinken.
um nicht ihrer Truppe folgen zu müssen. Vielleicht hatten sie Angst im Fluss Po zu ertrinken.
because they didn’t want to follow their troops, maybe they were afraid of drowning in the Po river… -
Zwei von ihnen hatten hier Freundinnen, die sie später geheiratet haben. Deren Kinder leben hier noch.
Zwei von ihnen hatten hier Freundinnen, die sie später geheiratet haben. Deren Kinder leben hier noch.
Two of them had girlfriends they got married with over here, their kids are here now. -
Battle defending the Ligonchio power plant
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So the Germans decided to blow up the power plants in Ligonchio
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