European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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However I was younger than the others, and I understood that this was an advantage.
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I was with a man called Bonini, from Villa Seta, who was around forty-five years old
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and had a wife at home, renting a small farm and taking care of the kids:
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that was a lot harder, but he always managed to take care of things rather easily.
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Then I finally came home from confinement.
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I had been given some documents which I was supposed to bring to the police.
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When I went there, I knocked on the door (we already knew how it worked)
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and the person inside asked me who I was.
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As I replied “Porta”, he told me to go out.
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I knocked again, and he sent me out again, for three times.
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Finally, he told me: “Don’t you know that when you come here you must give the Roman salute?”.
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I replied that I had just come back from almost four years of confinement for a lot less,
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and that I would rather be sent back there than have to obey to him.
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He eventually told me to go home, but it gives you an idea ...
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Arrest while in the army
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There was one rule back then.
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At Reggiane we manufactured airplanes
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– you can still see one of the airplanes we made, it’s at the Reggio Emilia airport –
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so the young workers of Reggiane who were called into the Army were entitled to serve in the Air Force,
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while those who worked at Lombardini Motori, manufacturing ship engines, usually served in the Navy.
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