European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Then what happened?
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It was 1943, the war was starting,
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people were talking about our retreats in Russia and in Northern Africa, the bombings, etc.
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In spring 1943, strikes began at the Reggiane plant.
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Not in my department or in the tooling department, where some of my friends were arrested.
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From then on I started some soul-searching: what was I really doing?
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I was working day and night to boost production for the war,
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while war killed people.
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I was shocked.
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From that moment on I tried
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to get in contact with the antifascists, but it was impossible.
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It was already the summer of ’43 when I went to Sassuolo to visit a friend.
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I knew him as an antifascist, hoping he could help me to become part of the movement.
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He told me he couldn’t, since he was indeed an antifascist but he wasn’t organized.
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There was another comrade in my department
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who I was friend with, his name was Armando Grassi from Gattaglio.
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I told him I wanted to be involved and I finally convinced him.
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He put me in touch with a guy called Corradini,
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whose name I actually found out only after the war, and that he was from Cavazzoli.
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From then on I became active in the underground movement.
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