European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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So I had this letter and I told them not to shoot at the car
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since the men in it were three partisans who were coming to blow up the bridge.
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Everything went well that day and I stayed there even the day after,
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because it took me more than a full day to go back down from Baiso to Soliera.
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I wrote it in a book in order to remember where it was: Cortile, near Campogalliano.
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I walked through the ditches, following the canal as it went down,
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after Modena, around Rubiera, and managed to deliver the letter.
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The following day they arrived with the car.
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If three Germans had arrived at this farmhouse, a small house right in the open,
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they would have been immediately killed by the partisans.
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They would have thought: “What are they doing here? They came for us”, and they would have shot at them.
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But everything went well, they waited for night to fall, placed the bombs, and succeeded in derailing the train.
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They stayed near the bridge the whole night, since the partisans had taken us to the right places.
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If they weren’t covered properly they couldn’t have done anything.
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Maybe they could have managed anyway, but they would have been in danger.
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That time they were taken to the right bridge to set the mines.
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The train arrived at five in the morning and at that point they said they killed a lot of people,
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having derailed six or seven railway wagons full of ammunition.
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The mission went well, and after two days they made it back to Secchio, pleased with their brilliant action.
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Difficulties of partisan-life
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