European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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In those days I only had Horatii and Curiatii on my mind.
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And in fact in my mortal fight with the Germans (being mortal for them, not for me),
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i called myself “Horace” because the Germans,
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these gasoline-coloured men,
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they had eyes of that colour
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they seemed to be big warriors.
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Introduction and family
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My name is Ulisse Gilioli, I was born on May 26th, 1921
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a in Montecavolo near Quattro Castella (in the province of Reggio Emilia).
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My family had been a miller family
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for over 400 years.
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In 1929 there was a terrible crisis and my father lost a great deal of money,
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mostly because he was a great friend of the parson.
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He had 12 or 14 sharecroppers working for him, so he was really rich,
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and they could not pay him any longer
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with the stuff they used to bring to the mill.
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“Keep calm, you'll see that one day god will ...”
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So they kept taking credits, but the day came when my father lost a lot of money.
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That was when we split up. Me and my brother Portos were both students,
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so we went to Montecchio,
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