European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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They were trained recklessly;
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they were taught the most important things and then dropped in the partisan areas.
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We started from scratch but were also trying to improve our military expertise.
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As an example, it took us one and a half hours to blow up a bridge on road 63,
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as it was made of stones.
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We changed our method and were able to do it in fifteen minutes.
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In July, when the great mop-up took place,
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there were just two or three of us sappers.
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We were scattered around because the battle started at four in the morning,
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and by the evening the whole partisan area had been occupied by the Germans.
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