European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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and then we burned down the village. That was a terribly sad thing we did.
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Years later I have travelled through Yugoslavia three or four times as a tourist,
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I knew a little Croatian, I could speak quite well.
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I was talking to a bartender, he asked me why I knew the language
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and I said “I have been here”.
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He told me not to speak because the locals had no friendly attitude towards us after what we'd done.
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That's the truth. And don't come tell me that if you go to war you go to help.
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