European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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“Battaglioni” was a song which read:
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“Battalions of the Duce, death squads, created for life,
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in spring we’ll take part in the battle of Mussolini, brave troops…”
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They sang for 5 or 10 minutes.
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After a while our side was singing “Bandiera rossa”:
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“Bandiera rossa, let’s go, at arms, etc.”
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I was really surprised because I didn’t even know these songs, not even “Bandiera rossa”.
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What happened next?
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The fascists had found out that there was a column of people coming.
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They thought it was Germans or fascists but it was our own people.
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It was Luigi, who had been informed about the battle in Cerrè after he had disarmed the fascists in Gatta.
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He decided to make an effort to sneak up behind the Germans.
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After he arrived we took control to the north, south and east.
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The Germans could only make it towards the west, but at that point they disbanded.
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Some ran away, 22 surrendered.
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The battle ended at around two in the afternoon.
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Ten Germans had died, along with many wounded,
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and we had 22 prisoners who had surrendered.
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On our side there were seven casualties and eleven wounded.
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It was one of the heaviest battles during the whole Resistance.
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