European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I did my training for a second time, in Bari, and then I was sent to Albania.
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I did not want to go, so I went to speak to my lieutenant colonel.
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I explained to him how I knew that I was not entitled to use a weapon anymore, since I had lost all my rights by being arrested.
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He replied that he went to fight in Albania with the Blackshirts although he was in the Army,
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and that if he had to go, then I would definitely go too.
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After I had been in Albania, in Durres, for four or five months,
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I received a letter from the Government stating that I immediately had to go back to Italy, since I was not supposed to be there.
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I was taken to the port and embarked on a ship whose name was Disentine.
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We stayed there three days without setting sail, apparently because there were British u-boats.
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Then one evening, from the ship, we saw that there were great celebrations in Durres,
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people hugging all around, and we decided to get off.
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It was the 8th of September, Badoglio had just declared the armistice.
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There were also fifty German soldiers in Durres:
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they took off their uniforms and celebrated with us,
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and got dressed as Germans again only eight days later.
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From that day, nobody was able to correspond with Rome.
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Even those in charge of the different services or of the orderly room could not speak to anyone in Rome: nobody would answer.
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Maybe it was better this way.
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One day, our officers in charge, such as General Mondini, from Parma, who was the Commanding General of my division,
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pulled the troops together and deliberately lied to us.
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