European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We only made it to our destination at noon, as the ferry was quite slow and stopped in all those small villages.
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When we got there the soldiers were coming back from a mop-up.
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What do you call them, fascists? Or should I say “repubblichini” (supporters of the Republic of Salò), as we called them then?
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Anyway, they were all there apart from my brother.
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I was desperate, I immediately thought he had been killed in the mountains.
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But it wasn’t true, he simply didn’t take part in the mop-ups.
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He worked as a shoemaker or as a warehouseman, any type of job,
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whatever he could find so as not to go out on missions with the other soldiers.
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I finally found him and he was doing fine. Then I told him that they had to come back home, otherwise the partisans would kill them.
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Either they would be killed here or back home, because afterwards they would be considered responsible of terrible deeds.
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They were really scared, I guess they were brainwashed in order for them to be cruel, to imprison or kill people.
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Whatever they had to do, they were frightened.
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He told me that they couldn’t run away, that there was no way for them to do so.
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That was it, and we went back home. Later fortunately they were taken to Cento, near Ferrara.
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They probably needed soldiers there, so they moved them.
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I took my bicycle and brought him some clothes, and he was finally able to escape.
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There were six men from Marola and they all managed to escape, two at a time, and make it home.
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They wore plain clothes and ran away at night, just like everybody else, in order not to be caught by the Germans or the fascists.
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Searching for the wounded near Albinea
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They decided to come to Albinea
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