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then they all met in Scampate at Chicco’s, at Castellani’s home.

I didn’t really attend the meetings.

They did call me there,

but they met to assign various functions, since they were all “leaders”.

They sent me in town to go shopping, buy the glasses, the hats,

things that would allow them to disguise themselves and get away,

even if they moved about at night.

Then each was given his assignment.

From then on, some started to go to the mountains, but there was absolutely nothing ready there.

We would go visit families who we knew were antifascist, who were against the war…

First of all, there were already some soldiers who had succeeded in deserting, and we told them to go to the mountains.

Then we collected clothes and supplies.

I took them to Roncolo and handed them to Torreggiani, who would take care of getting them to the mountains.

We did that during the winter,

collecting things, preparing people, preparing women

in order to have some homes ready to hide in for one night for those who didn’t know where to stay before they left for the mountains.

That’s more or less what we did.

We delivered orders…

At that point some were already properly organized.

My military duties, I carried them out supporting the comrades who were in the mountains and those who had to hide.