European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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“If it was for me, I would just dump them in a cesspit”.
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Very funny, isn’t it?
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Although we had not done anything to be punished, they ended up putting us in confinement cells.
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The prison was full, but they had these special cells where they could fit one or two of us,
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There was only a small opening in the door, and a tiny window for some fresh air,
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so you never heard or saw anyone aside from the guard who came by to check on us every now and then.
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I spent more or less twenty days in Castelfranco.
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The old antifascists in Reggio
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There weren’t any real dangers, since they rather controlled those who were older than me.
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Even inside the Reggiane plant I was always an antifascist,
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just like many others who were less fortunate than I was.
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At Reggiane we used to manufacture airplanes.
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Colleagues like Ganassi, Bagnacani or Catellani were all sent to jail after being caught putting sand in the engine cylinders.
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But they were all thirty or so, were already married and often had children,
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and that’s the kind of people they hit harder on.
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They didn’t really insist with us, we were left somehow ignored.
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My boss always used to say that
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when the soldiers would come back, they would have to become members of the Party if they wanted to work in the factory”.
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They were my teachers, they taught me how to take care of things.
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At the time we were collecting money for the so-called Red Relief,
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