European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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Another of our great engagements was capturing Major Battaglia
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at Villa Bresci in San Bartolomeo.
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He was a young commander of the GNR. He used to sleep there, having seized the villa.
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They had captured Muso during a mop-up in San Polo. We had to consider how we could save him.
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Some Black Brigades units had captured around twenty young men to send to Germany,
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while they sent Muso to the San Tommaso prison after they found a gun on him.
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He was in prison waiting to be executed, together with the Cervi brothers.
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We caught Major Battaglia and took him to central headquarters in the mountains.
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All the different parties were represented at the central headquarters:
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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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