European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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They welcomed a lot of people, maybe too many. They also welcomed fleeing foreign soldiers they didn’t know.
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Some of them might have been spies. So they went to the mountains for a while and then came back.
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I guess they went on letting too many people in. We all know what happened afterwards.
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GAP (Armed Partisan Groups)
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GAPs were organized in groups of three.
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This meant that each member knew only about two others and nothing else.
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We all knew that those who were captured were being tortured in Villa Cucchi.
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Just as they did with Paolo Davoli and Tina from Cavriago or Rosellina.
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