European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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next to the road where we always stopped for a chat.
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I remember that as they announced these news around 5 p.m.,
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the news that the war was over, my sister screamed at me:
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"Hey, Francesco, they said on the radio that the war is over
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but now there will be discussions with the Germans ..."
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So I went upstairs because in our house I was the only one in possession of a radio,
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so I went to listen. They said something
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about the cease-fire with the Americans so the war-thing was expected to be over,
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but it was starting right in that moment instead, especially for us.
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Introduction and youth
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My name is Francesco Bertacchini,
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I was born in Reggio Emilia on June 24th, 1926.
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That was a very bad time,
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we couldn't go anywhere because we were being controlled everywhere we went,
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it was very nasty. We were friends with this guy called Benito,
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the son of Benito Foscato, the worst fascist of Zanichelli Street,
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where we have grown up as kids.
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So we always had to be very careful about what we were saying
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because he would go and tell his father who would call us to the headquarters.
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It was a dog's life, you had to take care whom you were dealing with.
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