European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I was all over Yugoslavia, from Zagreb to Croatia to Slovenia.
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These are difficult territories;
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the people there were strong enemies to us just like we were strong
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enemies to the fascists when I was a partisan later fighting them and the Germans.
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That's all, it was a long time and we were freezing and starving.
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We did have food, but when you're 20 or 22, you're always hungry.
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There was no fruit, the land was a desert just like here,
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there was nothing to eat,
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just the meals they gave us when something arrived, and only a few things.
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A sad thing I remember took place when we were in Slovenia,
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just outside the capital, in a place called “the Sawmill”, in the woods.
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The partisans attacked us and we reacted.
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The fascists and the snipers came
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and emptied out the village, they killed more than 400 people, shot dead like dogs.
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That's the truth, and we were around the hills checking if the others were coming.
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After this desaster the fascists went away.
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They had carried away women and children, they brought them to Fiume,
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and then they committed this big massacre.
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It was up to us bury the bodies, and so we did.
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We threw them all in a hole, covered them with sawdust from the nearby sawmill
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