European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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SAPs, GAPs and all the partisans attacked during the night
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and took a cattle herd of one hundred and ten into the mountains with two cattlemen.
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It was great, because of the effort it took.
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The Rubbianino road had two hedges three meters tall; it was absolutely dark.
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The difficult thing was to get the cattle moving.
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The cattlemen taught us to tie four of them together by the horns with some rope.
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We put them in front of the group and set off, leaving the others free.
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So we made it to Cerredolo dei Coppi.
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We knew the partisan paths better than normal roads.
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So we made it to Cerredolo dei Coppi with all the cattle.
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Getting them there really was a problem.
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My brother was also there, people used to call him the tax collector
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because of what he ate and how he dressed.
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We discussed about where to put the cattle.
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We decided to take two or three to each farm.
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Farmers made great use of them, using them to plough the land. The Germans had seized petrol
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and farmers could not use tractors.
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Still, at times, a cow was butchered and we all had some meat to eat,
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since there were personnel who distributed it around.
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Action for exchange of prisoners
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