European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Near the Via Emilia, they had known about the Liberation before.
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When I arrived at home, in Cella, it was 9:30 or 10, and they had just found out.
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I was one of the first partisans who had come back.
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It was a disaster.
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I couldn’t stop crying since I had always been very sensitive.
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My father was telling people to let me go: “He didn’t die in the mountains, do you want him to die here?”
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Afterwards I went to the well,
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washed my face with some cold water and straightened myself up, then went back to Reggio.
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By then all the young girls in Cella had formed a column and were walking towards Reggio to march into town.
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They arrived in Reggio, together with those from Pieve Modolena, Cavazzoli, etc.
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They had formed an endless column.
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They reached Santo Stefano, where the order was not to go into town since there were snipers shooting.
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At the time of the Liberation,
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the partisans changed the road signs on the Via Emilia,
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so that the Germans headed towards the lowlands instead of Milan.
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There they found all the bridges blown up.
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It was a nightmare for them, until they made it to Boretto.
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With difficulty they had to leave thousands of tanks, horses, other things, an incredible haul.
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Few or none of the Germans made it across the Po river.
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The Resistance for me was just like going to university.
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