European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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They worked day and night to get the car ready and only left the following day,
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while I had to leave before, by foot. They arrived the day after.
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I had to get there earlier to tell everybody that a German car was arriving,
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but that the three men in it were partisans. I had a document.
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I don’t know if you noticed that there’s a copy of it in Gordon’s book.
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The English had written that whatever happened they would have rewarded us.
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So I had this letter and I told them not to shoot at the car
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since the men in it were three partisans who were coming to blow up the bridge.
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Everything went well that day and I stayed there even the day after,
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because it took me more than a full day to go back down from Baiso to Soliera.
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I wrote it in a book in order to remember where it was: Cortile, near Campogalliano.
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I walked through the ditches, following the canal as it went down,
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after Modena, around Rubiera, and managed to deliver the letter.
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The following day they arrived with the car.
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If three Germans had arrived at this farmhouse, a small house right in the open,
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they would have been immediately killed by the partisans.
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They would have thought: “What are they doing here? They came for us”, and they would have shot at them.
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But everything went well, they waited for night to fall, placed the bombs, and succeeded in derailing the train.
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They stayed near the bridge the whole night, since the partisans had taken us to the right places.
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If they weren’t covered properly they couldn’t have done anything.
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