European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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He understood that I wanted to enlist.
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We went to the river Enza where he had an appointment with many other guys.
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My task was to bring a bag of 5 kilos of salt from Montecchio to Canossa.
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I fixed it well and got on my way, but as I arrived in Canossa they stopped us.
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"STOP! PASSWORD!" The password was "Torino. Avanti Toro!"
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So we went to a something of a barn to sleep
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and eat because we still had not had breakfast.
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They gave us a nice big cup of milk with bread.
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I was with my brother in the Stalin unit.
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I wasn't called Bonifacio VIII in memory of Matile of Canossa,
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but i called myself Horace.
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In those days I only had Horatii and Curiatii on my mind.
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And in fact in my mortal fight with the Germans (being mortal for them, not for me),
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i called myself “Horace” because the Germans,
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these gasoline-coloured men,
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they had eyes of that colour
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they seemed to be big warriors.
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Introduction and family
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My name is Ulisse Gilioli, I was born on May 26th, 1921
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a in Montecavolo near Quattro Castella (in the province of Reggio Emilia).
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