European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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And when someone was to do surveillance duty: keep your eyes open and don't sleep,
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because during military service you do surveillance like this.
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But then again, you could find partisans doing surveillance and sleeping.
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If you're tired, ask for a change, you stupid,
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because I sleep quietly if you're keeping your eyes open, but if you sleep, too ... ?!
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And in fact these things happened, I'm not going to talk about it because they're too tragic,
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but it happened that the Germans came in and did a massacre
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because the guard wasn't paying attention. They had no experience.
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Another episode happened to me near Parma.
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One day we crossed the river Enza
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and three people drowned, one from Rivalta.
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So we reach the other shore and I went to the partisans of Parma
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and asked them: "How many are you here?" and one said:
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"We have one team here and one there",
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so I said "Let's do the guard tonight". I was leading a big group,
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more than 50 partisans and he had a little team.
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So I said: "Shall we do the guard team with one of your men and one of mine?"
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and he replied: "No, we will do the surveillance tonight,
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you already crossed the river, you're tired and wet".
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But at night you could hear them dancing and playing,
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