European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

the former for the Garibaldi-brigades, the latter for the Green Flames.

I accepted, they called me then special reporter

and was sent to the units to describe the partisan life.

I liked it, I noticed I got better every day, I told myself how good I was ...

To make it short we went to Reggio Emilia and opened another journal,

the "Volunteer of Freedom", and I became the chief editor.

The director was "Eros" Didimo Ferrari.

We were issuing the newspaper because a guy called Cipro,

the future commander of the Battalion of the Single Command,

and me vice commander,

he was somehow able to manage it, I don't know how.

Anyway, whenever he'd find them (paper) he'd bring them to the command post, to the journal.

Then we went to provide the paper, the ink and the printer.

We printed almost 1000 by hand.

I slept in the night doing this, turning the handle.

We had a lot of readers because there were some really nice stories told in it.

Yesterday I met a partisan, a vice-commander, and he told me:

"You wrote some really nice stuff".

Well, we tried to keep the morale up, for example.

Beginning of the partisan activity