European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

We made friends with the guard of the GIL, who was called Bonacini.

Orvillo, our third friend but more a brother to us

was working as a driver for the GIL.

So we made friends and at night during the curfew

we went to the GIL to spend the night, play games,

stay with friends and no-one would bother us,

despite the fact that it was turning into barracks.

In those barracks there were no Black Brigades but Green Flames instead.

They called the young fascists a name that I now can't remember.

It were their barracks but they had to let us stay

because they knew we were going to Felice's place.

He, poor man, was living there as a guard, and nobody ever went there.

We were staying there until midnight, then we slowly walked across the river

and went home without the fear that a group of fascists would get us.

One day Armando's uncle told us:

"Guys, if you want to go and take a look where the rebels stay,

I can tell you the way".

We were sceptical at the beginning,

there were news that the fascists went for a roundup in the mountains,

that they had found the rebels, and that they'd done this and that ...