European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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And in fact these things happened, I'm not going to talk about it because they're too tragic,
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but it happened that the Germans came in and did a massacre
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because the guard wasn't paying attention. They had no experience.
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Another episode happened to me near Parma.
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One day we crossed the river Enza
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and three people drowned, one from Rivalta.
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So we reach the other shore and I went to the partisans of Parma
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and asked them: "How many are you here?" and one said:
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"We have one team here and one there",
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so I said "Let's do the guard tonight". I was leading a big group,
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more than 50 partisans and he had a little team.
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So I said: "Shall we do the guard team with one of your men and one of mine?"
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and he replied: "No, we will do the surveillance tonight,
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you already crossed the river, you're tired and wet".
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But at night you could hear them dancing and playing,
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there were about ten partisans, i go in and ask:
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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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