European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

And in fact these things happened, I'm not going to talk about it because they're too tragic,

but it happened that the Germans came in and did a massacre

because the guard wasn't paying attention. They had no experience.

Another episode happened to me near Parma.

One day we crossed the river Enza

and three people drowned, one from Rivalta.

So we reach the other shore and I went to the partisans of Parma

and asked them: "How many are you here?" and one said:

"We have one team here and one there",

so I said "Let's do the guard tonight". I was leading a big group,

more than 50 partisans and he had a little team.

So I said: "Shall we do the guard team with one of your men and one of mine?"

and he replied: "No, we will do the surveillance tonight,

you already crossed the river, you're tired and wet".

But at night you could hear them dancing and playing,

there were about ten partisans, i go in and ask:

"How many partisans are you here?" "It's twelve of us".

"But how many are you here?" "No, we're not doing surveillance at night".

So I let them stop playing and called the team leader and told him:

"Now you'll deal with me" and let him do the guard shift and in the morning I left