European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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we were told that the line headed to Emilia Romagna had left already.
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They were using old trucks, whatever was left,
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because the railroad bridge in Piacenza had been bombed.
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We stayed there two days, before someone suggested we should get on a train to Padova and then to Ponte Lagoscuro,
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since trains were able to pass the Po river there.
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That’s what we did: we went to Padova, then to Ferrara, and finally made it to Bologna.
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In Bologna we were supposed to stay in a barrack for two days,
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but I went out with two or three comrades and we managed to find a SARSA bus.
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We asked the driver if he was heading towards Reggio and if we could hop up, and he happily consented.
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In Castelfranco, however, the ticket inspector kindly told us that we would have had to pay the ticket fare.
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We replied that we had no money at all,
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so he agreed not to make us get off, but once in Reggio
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we would have had to go to the SARSA offices together.
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When we got in he said:
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“Boss, these men haven’t paid the bus fare because they claim they’re coming from Germany”.
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The reply was: “You really are a moron, I told you they have every right to go back to their homes!”.
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He really got scolded.
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At that point we started walking with two others from Correggio.
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We knew nothing at all, I had no news of my family, so we inquired with the director of SARSA.
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We walked home, something that was still quite common back then.
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