European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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At the time of the Liberation,
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the partisans changed the road signs on the Via Emilia,
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so that the Germans headed towards the lowlands instead of Milan.
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There they found all the bridges blown up.
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It was a nightmare for them, until they made it to Boretto.
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With difficulty they had to leave thousands of tanks, horses, other things, an incredible haul.
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Few or none of the Germans made it across the Po river.
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The Resistance for me was just like going to university.
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I learned to feel confident throughout my whole life, and never felt uncomfortable again.
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That’s why I set up the cooperative although everybody was against the idea. Consorzio, Federcoop laughed at me:
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“What are you setting up the cooperative for? You wouldn’t be able to lead a cooperative even if the times were different”.
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I replied: “You don’t understand. I took part in the Resistance and I learned a lot from it.
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We did things you wouldn’t even imagine”.
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It was hard to forgive…
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We were all between 15 and 28 years old.
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A boy called Francia wasn’t even fifteen.
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Another one from Guastalla, who’s still alive, was seventeen,
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the others were around 20-21 years old.
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There was one of us who was 28, who was married and father of a one-year old child.
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They arrested his wife, then they tortured her and raped her.
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