European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We went on the roof to see who was shooting from the Church of Madonna della Ghiara.
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We couldn’t see anything from there, so we went back downstairs and headed for the bell-tower.
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We found the bell-ringer and asked him how we could climb up.
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He showed us the way and told us to proceed slowly.
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As we got on the roof there were three men of the Black Brigade with a 37 mm Breda machine gun.
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I told them not to move and raise their hands.
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They obeyed as they saw the machine gun pointed at them.
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They told us not to kill them. They’d show us where the others were. “Alright”, we said, “where are they?”
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They told us there was a platoon of around thirty of them hiding in the subterranean vaults of “La Luna”, a spot near Porta Castello.
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As we got back down, however, there was a surprise.
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A jeep with a big white star printed on the hood was parked by the church. I asked what was going on.
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The driver got out of the jeep
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and told me that the commander wanted to know who those three men with their hands up were.
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I told them that they were the ones who were shooting from the roof.
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The major didn’t speak Italian, so the driver had to translate for him.
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He got out of the car too, pointed the Thompson gun
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and fired a spray of bullets.
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I had to take a piece of liver off my jacket afterwards, because he had shot them at point-blank range.
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I asked him why he killed them, since they had surrendered and were our prisoners.
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But the driver called me over and showed me there were three holes in their jeep.
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