European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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That’s what the partisan struggle was about. Fourteen months more or less, constantly: these actions, these deaths.
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When you were taken to an investigation, when you could not walk any more, you were brought to the cell.
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I went to a lady that I saw once in my life. It was my contact spot. She said to me: you can save a child.
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They did not want us in sabotage, we were too young. Our scout authorities made it clear not to get us into sabotage.
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There was no real future for us. But that made you stronger to go into the resistance and help wherever you could.
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You are young people. Don’t fight with each other. Be collegial. Be friends because you don’t know what the tomorrow will be like.
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The Resistance for me was just like going to university. I learned to feel confident throughout my whole life.
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I remember Strozzi saying: »War has never brought anything good for the poor.«
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What did we know about politics? With fascism, you could only read what they gave to you, and you didn’t even have the right to make comments.
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I started to run as fast as I could. I was skinny then and 23 years old. The soldier took out his gun and started shooting at me.
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I will join the partisans from Carpineti because i wanted the war to end.
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It was the Italian occupiers who gunned down every liberation movement. They shot so many innocent hostages.
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Killing, even in the name of great ideals, will ultimately come back to you later in form of a trauma.
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The Tchetniks attacked us from behind and they massacred the Partisans, all from behind our line. We lost 700 men in one night and one day.
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I could not share the responsibility to work with the ones that wanted to eliminate us.
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Why then, do we kill each other? Why? Because the ones that decide to wage war are not the ones who fight it.
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I've always said that those two would have to die before me: Mussolini and Hitler.
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I don't agree at all with that Pope that blessed the arms: arms must be cursed, not blessed.
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The Germans, these gasoline-coloured men, they had eyes of that colour, they seemed to be big warriors.
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One day Armando's uncle told us: "Guys, if you want to go and take a look where the rebels stay, I can tell you the way".
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