European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

We could not express our ideas because we knew

that he would always agree with us but in the end

he always would go to tell his father what we'd said and done.

In fact, in the end it turned out that he'd enrolled as a volunteer for the Black Brigade:

to us it was a shock because we could have been put to jail.

You could not trust a person like that.

Liberation

I told you I was in Cervarezza with my battalion

of 100-120 partisans, and then we went down the Sparavalle

and got to Castelnovo Monti and there some more people joined us.

All on foot. It was a beautiful moment, we were happy and quiet.

Then we reached Reggio and were so proud.

Sometimes there still was some idiots shooting at us,

hidden in the houses, we call them snipers.

One of our friends was killed in Cà di Rocco,

next to the church of San Pellegrino.

A sniper-idiot who was sitting on the roof of the church, they killed him, too, later.

It was people who didn't want to surrender. As of the rest it was a big party, that's it.

Military experience

When I was serving in the first unit,