European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I felt fear that night, at least for a short time.
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Massacre at Bettola, June 1944
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Then there was this episode in La Bettola.
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It was a shocking event for our province.
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They had killed many people before, even elderly people, but always adults.
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This time however they made fun of those who were dead, and also killed some children.
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Everybody started to become conscious that it was “time to get rid of them”.
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A really large group of people took up arms against them.
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1940 beginning of the war; 1943 Mussolini arrested
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They took us to Busana as there was a radio there, and I remember that
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we listened to Mussolini’s speech from Palazzo Venezia.
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Afterwards I saw it on TV over and over, that big head at the window, on that balcony in Palazzo Venezia…
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and everybody clapping below.
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I thought that the war had started. You didn’t contemplate things too much at that age.
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That was June 1940, I was thirteen and a half, so what can you be concerned about?
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Having had that sort of education.
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These guys broke into the local headquarters of the fascist party and threw everything out of the windows,
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including the portrait of Mussolini, which had been respected so much until then.
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Seeing these things in the dirt of the street,
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well that was the first turning point.
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