European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Within an hour of the announcement the whole town knew that the King had signed the armistice.
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We began to see soldiers wandering in the country, going back home.
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I had developed an awareness regarding antifascism.
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I was active together with other women in asking local families to offer hospitality
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and clothes for these young men who were disbanded.
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After the King had fled, the army had no leadership.
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Then the Germans occupied the area, on that same day.
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Joining the Communist Party
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I really flew into a rage in 1938,
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as my brother was arrested.
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He was arrested for being a subversive.
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That’s how the regime labelled those who didn’t agree with the Duce.
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The Communist party underground network was constantly growing.
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The young subversives organized themselves house by house.
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The Communist leaders had already been arrested a long time before and sent to confinement.
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Therefore it might have seemed that there was no leadership left.
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But there was this network,
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as fragile as it could have been which was secretly growing thanks to the words and the work of these young men.
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If there were two people one day, there were three the following one,
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since they were finding more and more people who were tired of fascism.
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