European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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we increased from around fifty to more than a thousand men.
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There just wasn’t enough time to organize ourselves.
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For example they set up a detachment and position it in an area, without knowing who these partisans were. That was a problem.
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They decided to set up a unit called “Fiamme Verdi” (green flames),
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and went around asking for people to join them. They asked me, too, since I was a catholic.
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I didn’t go since I liked being with the “Garibaldini”.
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That day, the Fiamme Verdi brigade was formed,
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with Don Carlo as commander and, later on, my dear friend Aldo Dall’Aglio second-in-command.
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He died on the Prampa on the 10th of January after the mop-up of the 7th.
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He had also asked me to join them.
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Maybe it was a good thing I didn’t go,
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since all those who were second-in-command or in other positions in the “Fiamme Verdi” died in battle.
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Saboteurs; German mob-up in July 1944
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I attended a course for saboteurs. I think we were five.
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The Allies were air-dropping explosives the whole time. Nobody knew how to use them.
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One day they also parachuted a saboteur to teach us.
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Our duty was to blow up bridges, railway tracks and the like.
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He taught us how to handle explosives,
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how to make mines, how to blow up railway tracks, how to blow up a road, or a military column.
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After we practiced a bit I think we were much better than our instructor.
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