European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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but there were a few groups of partisans in the lowlands, the SAPs, trying to disarm them.
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However, the Germans didn’t give up until the very end.
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We were told to keep calm.
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Nobody knew what the situation was.
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I was at home when I heard a horse coming at full speed.
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The reins were loose, because he had probably taken the horse from a cart.
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I ran outside and it was a German soldier. He was really young.
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Hitler had enlisted even those who were 15 or 16 years old.
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As he saw me, he started to shout that the Americans were coming.
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He wanted me to take cover, because he didn’t know I was a partisan.
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At that moment we were only a young boy and a young girl who wanted the war to come to an end.
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He was about to try to make it home, while I was waiting for my country to be free again.
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At that moment I didn’t feel like I could hate neither the Germans nor that young soldier.
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Maybe he could have harmed me before, but at that point all I wanted was the war to be over and things to change.
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That’s what I did on the 24th. On the 25th all the joy I had inside burst open.
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War for me had started in 1935, with the campaign in Africa. I was ten then, and on April 25th 1945 I was twenty.
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The first thing I did was to throw our windows open.
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For the previous five years we had covered them with blue paper in order not to let any light into our houses.
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After that we found a flag and we all lined up to go to Reggio for a triumphant parade.
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Along the Via Emilia there were American soldiers on both sides.
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