European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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for example if the Rosselli detachment, based in Cavandola, close to Canossa, had to go to Quattro Castella,
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or carry out an action on the Emilia road, it was a woman partisan who would lead the way for the group.
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We were called dispatch riders, but we would lead the way to see what was ahead and then go back to report.
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This was really important.
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Questioned by fascists; Illegality
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They came around a week after they had arrested them, still in August.
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I was questioned for a whole day.
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In the morning I was interrogated by the chief of UPI and by one of the commissioners, I think it was Dr. Cocconi.
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He was the cousin of the second-in-command
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of the central headquarters of the partisans operating in the mountains.
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I was questioned very harshly. They were accusing me.
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I was denying, claiming that I had gone there only to get some eggs,
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that a man had asked me for my ID card and I didn’t even know who he was.
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This went on for two or three hours.
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Then they said they were going to put me face to face with the man who had taken my ID card.
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They brought this man inside, he was in plain clothes but all dressed up, wearing a tie.
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I knew that partisans were tortured, and since he hadn’t been tortured…
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So he began to tell what I had done, saying that my brother was a partisan and I had gone there to pick up a gun.
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At that point I just lost the light of reason.
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That was my luck, since I reacted in a very aggressive way:
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