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One was Carmen (battle name) and the other Vera, who was from Yugoslavia.

They were assigned to the headquarters of the brigade.

That’s what the partisan struggle was about.

Fourteen months of actions.

If it wasn’t everyday, there was something one night, something else the following and the one after too.

I did this the whole time, continuously.

If I wasn’t typewriting, I was riding my bicycle going all over the place, to Bologna or other towns.

More or less constantly: these actions, these deaths.

Because there were battles, casualties too.

It was fourteen months of battle.

Deportation of the father and friends

At that point I see a fascist, a German van driving up the hill.

Since all peasants were at the strike… the van proceeds further up…

they went to Aleotti’s house instead and set it on fire (the Aleotti family was at the strike).

Somebody had betrayed us immediately, since in Montecavolo there were many fascists.

They betrayed so that the strike went well in Montecavolo and not in the other towns around Reggio

because, if this had happened in the whole Province, fascists and Germans would have had a lot to do!

They focused on Montecavolo, while in Rivalta the strike didn’t work out

because somebody was telling people “not to go in order not to get killed”.

It could have been so, but these battles had to be done,