European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Instead of 100 of our men dying, only two fell, two were wounded and one was taken captive.
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Confinement; Surrender of Italy
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At one point, I experienced some sort of metamorphosis, like in Trieste
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when the fascist spat in my face and I identified everyone who spoke Italian as a fascist.
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The civilian population brought me to recognize that it is unjust to condemn
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or declare an entire population merely for what is expressed through their political, military or other representatives.
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I began to understand that Italians, no less than us, are quite disparate.
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There are those to whom I’m close and there are those whom I find adverse, they are my enemy as I am theirs.
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Upon our return from Italian confinement, we all went together in groups.
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I remember that the day I returned from half a year of confinement, I washed, changed my clothes and headed off to join the Partisans.
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My family wanted me to stay at least a full day. No. I couldn’t wait.
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For me, joining the Partisans felt like discovering America.
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I wanted to become an active fighter and not just a sympathizer.
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The mood after the fall of fascism – formally on July 25th and later September 8th -
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when Italy acceded to the unconditional truce,
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and which was when we arrived after a few days of travel from the Abruzzi to the Karst,
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the atmosphere was already in full swing.
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People were gathering and cheering about liberation, convinced that the war was over.
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So my comrades and I, we were anxious and eager to seize the day that we, too, would become fighters, before the war ended.
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It was a total illusion that with the capitulation of Italy, Germany would fall as well.
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