European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We reached a point where people were throwing garbage in a hole,
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and we guessed that there must be a village nearby.
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I looked into the hole and saw a sort of Alpino-hat in the garbage.
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It was one of those hats that the Balilla were using,
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the avanguardists (fascist youth), they had a hat like the ones the Alpini used.
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So I went down and got the hat, cleaned it a bit and put it on my head.
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In this manner we reached Succiso.
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In the outskirts of the village there were a few women
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but in the centre there was nobody. Everyone had left!
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I went into the tavern of Torri and asked if there were partisans here.
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He said: "No, there are no partisan round here, nobody."
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"But I saw a few women ... " "They went to buy food".
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So we decided to stay for a while, waiting for someone to come, but no-one appeared.
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It was like a desert even though it was a village.
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So we sat down under a poplar and said
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"Let's talk. We don't have any money, it's raining, we don't know where the partisans are,
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they don't tell us anything here, what shall we do? Shall we go home?
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But we can't go home any more ..."
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He tried to calm me, he was older than me (he was born in 1924, I in 1926).
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But eventually I took my ID-card out of my wallet, I looked at him and told him:
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