European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Some felt they had to get vengeance for all the brutality of the fascists and the Germans.
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I’ve never agreed with retaliation: once the war is over everything is over.
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On the other hand, we have to put ourselves in the shoes of those partisans, or even civilians, who had to bear these episodes:
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It’s hard to caress your torturer’s cheek when you meet him after the war.
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We must understand what happened during the war.
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These brutalities affected us too.
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These slaughters and the violence were something terrible for us.
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Although I was a member of Azione Cattolica,
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I believed in the values of forgiveness and of similar principles,
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it was hard for me, too.
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Training a group of sappers
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The ones I was working with weren't trained.
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Once, they were on guard duty and an accidental burst of fire occurred.
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They fled, leaving me alone.
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So I told myself I had to form a group of sappers under my command.
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I went to put forward my idea at the headquarters of the 26th Brigade, and I told Luigi:
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“Listen, I want to set up a team of sappers, I can train them”.
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We would have been under direct orders of the Brigade.
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The headquarters agreed, so I trained this group.
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We were able to take care of three or four actions at a time in a group of 12 men.
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