European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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You could disassemble it in three pieces and hide it, and put it together quickly.
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And I also had a 9 mm Beretta and four hand grenades.
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I stayed there with the First Battalion
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and we used to go on road 63, where German garrisons were all over the place.
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Not long after, around July, there was a great mop-up.
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The Goering attacked, we fought back for a day and a half, two days.
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Then there was a disbandment,
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because it’s really hard to resist against an attack
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from a German division with armoured vehicles, artillery, small airplanes, special forces.
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Maybe it wasn’t even right to fight back as we did,
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since guerrilla means attacking and withdrawing, coming back and so on.
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That time however it was decided to fight back jointly. We suffered many casualties in the end.
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Then the Germans took away more than a thousand men:
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all those who were able to work, and I think also a few women, were sent to Germany.
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That time there was a complete disbandment.
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After that, the Germans left,
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their division withdrew, but the garrisons on road 63 remained until the end of the war.
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We slowly recovered, difficultly,
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and I remember I stayed home around ten days because of this, helping my father,
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while my brother had gone away with "Frigio" and the Bedeschi unit. They were faster in getting back together.
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