European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Mr. Benito Mussolini and Mr. Hitler would have to die before me.
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imagine what they would say if they were to find out that I’m still here, more than eighty years old now!
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I say this only to laugh a bit.
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Deportation to Germany
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When I got back home I went to work there,
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but within three months I was called up for the Army again, since I was in the military when I was arrested.
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I did my training for a second time, in Bari, and then I was sent to Albania.
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I did not want to go, so I went to speak to my lieutenant colonel.
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I explained to him how I knew that I was not entitled to use a weapon anymore, since I had lost all my rights by being arrested.
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He replied that he went to fight in Albania with the Blackshirts although he was in the Army,
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and that if he had to go, then I would definitely go too.
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After I had been in Albania, in Durres, for four or five months,
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I received a letter from the Government stating that I immediately had to go back to Italy, since I was not supposed to be there.
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I was taken to the port and embarked on a ship whose name was Disentine.
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We stayed there three days without setting sail, apparently because there were British u-boats.
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Then one evening, from the ship, we saw that there were great celebrations in Durres,
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people hugging all around, and we decided to get off.
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It was the 8th of September, Badoglio had just declared the armistice.
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There were also fifty German soldiers in Durres:
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they took off their uniforms and celebrated with us,
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