European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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She had people who sent her a message to withdraw.
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For her it was dangerous now.
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So she backed away to the partisans
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and thought that everything would be okay if she went.
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But she was wrong.
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When the Gestapo came
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it was dangerous for all of them. They arrested all.
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Liberation of Reggio Emilia
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We went on the roof to see who was shooting from the Church of Madonna della Ghiara.
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We couldn’t see anything from there, so we went back downstairs and headed for the bell-tower.
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We found the bell-ringer and asked him how we could climb up.
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He showed us the way and told us to proceed slowly.
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As we got on the roof there were three men of the Black Brigade with a 37 mm Breda machine gun.
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I told them not to move and raise their hands.
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They obeyed as they saw the machine gun pointed at them.
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They told us not to kill them. They’d show us where the others were. “Alright”, we said, “where are they?”
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They told us there was a platoon of around thirty of them hiding in the subterranean vaults of “La Luna”, a spot near Porta Castello.
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As we got back down, however, there was a surprise.
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A jeep with a big white star printed on the hood was parked by the church. I asked what was going on.
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The driver got out of the jeep
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