European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We were there, chatting, all the machine guns ready
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and all of a sudden an armoured car turned up.
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We thought it was the Germans
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and got ready to shoot but
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it was a car driven by a black man, smoking a long cigar.
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They recognized us as partisans so they came to us and we hugged.
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That guy was from Brazil
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and as he came to us he threw the cigar away.
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As I saw it I ran to the cigar, put it out and put it in my pocket.
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To that time we were smoking leaves from nut- and cherry-trees.
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But the guy saw what I was doing and gave me a new one to smoke.
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They gave us some chocolate
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and asked us how we were doing, they spoke Italian.
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We stayed there all night and the next morning the order came
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to the detachement "Anti-Fascist" to go to Bibbiano
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and occupy the village of Bibbiano.
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We would have preferred to go to Quattro Castella
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because that was in the direction of Reggio Emilia.
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But we went to Bibbiano.
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We arrived in the morning, walking slowly, and there was no one.
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