European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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but actually, it was more about being irresponsible than afraid.
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When I think about it now, I realize that we could have done so much more without that much efforts and dangers.
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I’ve been afraid one night because I had never heard this German machine gun shoot,
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they called it “raganella” (tree frog): it could shoot so fast, so many bullets.
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That was really the only time my heart was pounding.
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Later I realized it was quite distant, but at the moment I thought it was there, a few steps away,
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this nasty sound in the silence of the night.
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I felt fear that night, at least for a short time.
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Massacre at Bettola, June 1944
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Then there was this episode in La Bettola.
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It was a shocking event for our province.
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They had killed many people before, even elderly people, but always adults.
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This time however they made fun of those who were dead, and also killed some children.
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Everybody started to become conscious that it was “time to get rid of them”.
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A really large group of people took up arms against them.
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1940 beginning of the war; 1943 Mussolini arrested
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They took us to Busana as there was a radio there, and I remember that
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we listened to Mussolini’s speech from Palazzo Venezia.
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Afterwards I saw it on TV over and over, that big head at the window, on that balcony in Palazzo Venezia…
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and everybody clapping below.
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