European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I know I was skinny, but I just had to live with that.
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I saw some die in anguish, crying:
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many had a wife and kids, and those were different kinds of problems.
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Then the Americans arrived at my camp.
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They left some guards, but we were free to go wherever we wanted.
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Two of us were butchers – one of them was from Ravenna, his name was Belloni.
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They began to find calves - I’m not joking! - then slaughtered them
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and put the meat in those beer barrels that you can find in Germany.
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We had fresh meat after 15 or 20 days,
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and every night they would go out to find something,
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so we were finally ok concerning food.
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Three days without bread
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Some of the interpreters, even those who were Italian,
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kept telling us there was a chance that Mussolini and Hitler
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decided that there had to be no Italian prisoners in this country.
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We’re talking about the famous IMIs (Internati Militari Italiani),
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Italian interned soldiers who were supposed to wear this acronym on the uniform.
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Four or five of us, including two Sardinian sergeants of the Italian financial police (the “Guardia di Finanza”),
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managed to convince all the others not to sign. We were 550 in my camp.
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They would tell us: “We’ll send you back home to Italy
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