European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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One day, our officers in charge, such as General Mondini, from Parma, who was the Commanding General of my division,
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pulled the troops together and deliberately lied to us.
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I think they knew from the very start that what they were telling us was a lie,
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but they told us that they had reached an agreement with the Germans: they would take us to Trieste,
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where we would all be able to go our own way.
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I was quite skeptical, but we all got on the train. There were forty-two of us on each railcar.
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When we reached the border the Germans locked the railcars, allegedly because of the Partisans.
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In the morning – I had a small booklet with a map – it turned out we were in Austria.
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I told the others that it didn’t look good at all.
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I ended up in Neubrandenburg, 200 km to the north of Berlin.
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I was grateful that three or four years ago I was able to visit the camp I was imprisoned in sixty years before.
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We stayed there for a while, under constant air raids.
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The Germans who were in charge of the camp stayed in the first two shacks,
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then there were two shacks of female prisoners – Russian women who worked on the railroad tracks with smaller shovels –
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then the French, and finally us. I don’t know how many thousands prisoners were in the camp.
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I should not forget to say that, at that point, I was still accompanied by two non-commissioned officers
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who had kept my documents since the day we had embarked to leave Albania.
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One of them was from Cosenza, the other from Catanzaro, and I think they were supposed to go back to Italy on special leave.
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When everything changed I was slightly worried: the two were beginning to need something to drink,
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and I was aware of how the Germans were not particularly fond of communists.
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