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a few days later they caught her and tortured her, they did all sort of thing to her ...

So they offered to hide me in the barn.

They gave me some dry clothes and brought me to the hiding place.

To that time the hiding places were in the middle of the fields.

And then they went to Cavriago to call Bruna.

As I saw her I was so glad, she told me that by nine they would come and pick me up.

So they did, I met them on the street

and we went to Gombio where my company was stationed.

I had a girlfriend there and I went to the barn

because I knew that when she was coming down she was going there.

When she saw me she said: "Volpe! Volpe!" and we hugged and she told me

"There were rumours that they'd caught you, that they'd killed you ..."

but everything went fine and we're here.

The Legoreccio massacre

So we went up to the Cerreto pass

to block the street because the traffic was becoming intense there

and the Germans were starting to annoy us.

From Aulla all the way up to Castelnovo Monti

a lot of Germans were passing through with tanks and cars.

So we decided to disturb them because this was an area quite dangerous for us.