European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Professor Marconi, together with Eros, Cocconi and everyone else.
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We sent a dispatch to the Podestà Rabotti, offering to swap our prisoner Major Battaglia with Muso.
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The German headquarters however didn’t consent to the exchange.
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They replied that the man they had caught with a gun had to be shot.
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We got together to discuss the situation. Since they refused to accept the exchange,
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we had to consider capturing a German soldier.
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Giorgio, the commander of the Cavriago GAP,
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told us about a SS captain who used to ride his motorbike in the evening to visit a woman in Cavriago.
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I told the others we had to catch him.
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We hid behind a bush during the day,
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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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