European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We had drawn together most of our forces in the lowlands around Reggio, around Limiti, Soliera, Carpi.
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All the houses were with us.
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There was actually a time when that area was called “free zone”, because nobody could get in.
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However
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the Nazi fascists had also been looking at that area, just like us.
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At a certain point they decided to do a mop-up to free the area.
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They were going to do it with such forces, machine guns and heavy ammunition.
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They would have more or less destroyed our whole organization.
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We met at the headquarters and decided we had to leave.
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As usual it was the dispatch-rider who had to face this battle,
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in order to go and inform all our comrades, otherwise they would have been slaughtered.
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If they couldn’t be ready in time, they could at least withdraw before they all got killed.
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At a certain point I declared I would go.
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I already knew the area. I had gone there often.
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We had many families of peasants there, wonderful families.
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I said: “I’m going, give me the gun and I’ll head over there”.
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I was given the orders, essentially those that could be remembered and passed on and left.
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I met this patrol. What could I do?
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They ordered me to stop. I pulled my gun and started to shoot.
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I shot while I was riding the bicycle, I shot as long as I could carry on until I reached the right place and inform all the others.
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