European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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"How many partisans are you here?" "It's twelve of us".
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"But how many are you here?" "No, we're not doing surveillance at night".
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So I let them stop playing and called the team leader and told him:
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"Now you'll deal with me" and let him do the guard shift and in the morning I left
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with the Russians that were there.
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We went uphill, high up, and after a while the Germans came and took them.
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They killed one, one from Reggio,
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whose name was given to the street that leads to the cemetery of Reggio Emilia.
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They found him in bed, sleeping because no-one was doing surveillance, for God's sake!
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When I led my battalion it was eight to ten of us
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and everyone had to do surveillance, in groups of two. I did my shift alone,
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three hours there in a hiding place, in the shadows, with eyes wide open.
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If you don't keep your eyes open during the surveillance shift you're in big trouble.
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The colour of the unit
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Our unit was red, all communist, because we had some true communists.
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The 144th Brigade was called “Antonio Gramsci”
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and the commander was "Sintoni", one that had fought in the Spanish civil war, Pattacini,
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the commissioner was Antonio Raisi, who'd fought in Spain, too, so all people that were political experts.
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That was our line.
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A priest, Don Guido Riva, once complained to us:
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