European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Then we had to back off of course.
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First partisan action; arms, deportations, fear
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After all these actions the Germans couldn’t allow us to continue any longer.
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I guess at our headquarters they found out that there would be a mop-up.
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Paterlini came to us saying “we must find something to blow up the bridge”, so that the trucks couldn’t get through.
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We went there with Carretti, a guy working for Edison, the local electric company:
We went there with Carretti, a guy working for Edison, the local electric company:
We went there with Carretti and met with a guy working for Edison, the local electric company: -
they had a cave so they also had TNT, mines, gunpowder…
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We prepared the holes and then blew up a large arch of a very big bridge in Cinque Cerri.
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Then we left for the mountains. From that day I was in battle.
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We went to the headquarters in Lama Golese, on the Cusna mountain.
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Pasquale Marconi was there, a teacher from Castelnovo Monti, who was a Christian Democrat, a catholic anyway.
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Then there were Eros, Miro, a Jewish doctor who was from Jugoslavia.
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We spent a few days there.
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It was a sort of recruitment, but we didn’t have enough weapons;
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we were waiting for Allied air drops that didn’t take place,
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so they sent four of us back to Ligonchio.
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We went to Ligonchio and there really was a crowd of partisans there.
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Unfortunately, not all of them were armed.
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More partisans came, who wanted to fight, to enrol.
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More than weapons dropped from the sky or taken during attacks to the German garrisons.
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