European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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we listened to Mussolini’s speech from Palazzo Venezia.
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Afterwards I saw it on TV over and over, that big head at the window, on that balcony in Palazzo Venezia…
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and everybody clapping below.
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I thought that the war had started. You didn’t contemplate things too much at that age.
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That was June 1940, I was thirteen and a half, so what can you be concerned about?
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Having had that sort of education.
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These guys broke into the local headquarters of the fascist party and threw everything out of the windows,
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including the portrait of Mussolini, which had been respected so much until then.
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Seeing these things in the dirt of the street,
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well that was the first turning point.
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Introduction, family, school
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My name is Giacomo Notari.
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I was born and still live in the mountains, in the town of Busana, in a tiny hamlet called Marmoreto.
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I have always lived here, because the mountains are part of my soul.
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I was born in a small hamlet of about 300 inhabitants.
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Most of the people were small farmers who survived on subsistence farming.
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It was the same for my family: we had some land, a few cows, chestnut groves and some woods.
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Except for a few days during the war I never suffered hunger.
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I had a brother who died as a partisan at 19, towards the end of the war.
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I also had an uncle, who didn’t live with us but in Cervarezza,
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