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Giacomo Notari
Istoreco ERA-Group
Pulse-team
2006-12-19
Pulse-team
2006-12-19
Well, did I kill somebody... We did shoot, but then knowing if we killed them for sure is another story.
Giacomo Notari
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Introduction, family, school
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1940 beginning of the war; 1943 Mussolini arrested
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Massacre at Bettola, June 1944
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First partisan action; arms, deportations, fear
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Attempt to arrest a German marshall
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Mining a bridge; Sabotaging flow of German troops
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Killing people; spies; arresting a German soldier
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Allied airdrop with food and weapon supplies
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Battle defending the Ligonchio power plant
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Some Germans do not flee and marry in the villages
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Why Giacomo entered the comunist party
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Partisan every day life; political commissars, why antifascism?
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Personal message
Photo Gallery
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May 1945. A young Giacomo Notari, partisan “Willi”.
Short Biography
Giacomo Notari was born in Busana (RE) on 26 December 1927. Today he still lives in this small village in the mountains near Reggio Emilia. After having witnessed several innocent people killed by the fascists, he was still very young when he decided to become a partisan. After the 8th of September 1943 he joined the 145th Garibaldi Brigade “Franco Casoli”, operating in the mountains near Reggio in the area of Ligonchio, Busana and Cervarezza. His battle name was “Willi”. He took part in several sabotages of bridges and telephone poles, as well as in the last great battle to defend the Ligonchio hydroelectric power plant, from 10 to 14 April 1945.