European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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He was with Casoli, the one from Berzana.
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When the war was over he went back home too,
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actually he was already there, doing whatever they could as partisans, running away when they had to.
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In order to carry important documents, however, you really needed people who were willing to run.
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We didn’t even have bicycles,
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so we would just walk along the road every time we had to bring people to the mountains, depending on where we picked them up.
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The Day of Liberation in Reggio Emilia
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On the 25th of April we came down from Baiso and stopped to eat at Grandi’s house.
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Grandi, a lawyer, was our great accomplice in Viano.
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He had prepared a wonderful lunch for our whole “Gufo Nero” unit and also for the English who were with us.
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We were a very large group of people.
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Before we finished eating they asked me to go find out if we could move forward.
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You could still hear many shots, the Germans and the fascists were still around armed and were trying to resist.
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We were quite worried. We had lunch there, then I left.
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That’s why I’m not in the picture the boys took when they arrived in Scandiano.
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I was walking ahead in order to see if there were any dangers and eventually go back to inform the others.
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But there were no problems at all, so I went on and they did the same, all the way down.
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When we made it to Reggio it was early evening.
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We had passed by Buco del Signore and arrived in Reggio in high spirits.
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When we arrived in Reggio it was incredible, wonderful.
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