European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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The cattlemen taught us to tie four of them together by the horns with some rope.
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We put them in front of the group and set off, leaving the others free.
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So we made it to Cerredolo dei Coppi.
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We knew the partisan paths better than normal roads.
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So we made it to Cerredolo dei Coppi with all the cattle.
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Getting them there really was a problem.
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My brother was also there, people used to call him the tax collector
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because of what he ate and how he dressed.
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We discussed about where to put the cattle.
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We decided to take two or three to each farm.
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Farmers made great use of them, using them to plough the land. The Germans had seized petrol
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and farmers could not use tractors.
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Still, at times, a cow was butchered and we all had some meat to eat,
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since there were personnel who distributed it around.
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Action for exchange of prisoners
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Another of our great engagements was capturing Major Battaglia
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at Villa Bresci in San Bartolomeo.
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He was a young commander of the GNR. He used to sleep there, having seized the villa.
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They had captured Muso during a mop-up in San Polo. We had to consider how we could save him.
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Some Black Brigades units had captured around twenty young men to send to Germany,
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