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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.

We were supposed to change the shift every week but we stayed up there

for more than three weeks and no-one came to take over our position.

We were living in the woods there, with no safe place to go.

The patrol was constantly on alert because the Germans wouldn't let us in peace there.

So we complained to our commander, asking to have a change

because we were all beginning to get sick.

and in October the snow began to fall,

so sleeping in the woods and patrol all day was not nice at all.

I had the flu and was ordered to go to my group,

but I had lost my track.

They were supposed to be next to Legoreccio, a quiet and safe area,

they went there to have a rest.

When I and another colleague arrived there they had left to Parma.