Chapter 17
Early on the morning of October 2, 1943, Vittorio D'Aiazzo and two officers had gone to Piazza Mazzini in a small jeep. In the meantime, the survivors of Major Amicarelli’s company and some local people had recomposed the bodies of the people who had died in the clash with the panzers as far as was possible considering the damage done to them. The corpses had been lined up along one side of the square and, in the many cases of absolute slaughter, hessian sacks and shovels had been used to collect the scant compressed organic matter to which those patriots’ bodies had been reduced after the Nazi panzer tracks had passed over them again and again.
Marino Bordin’s body appeared among the few who had remained almost intact, apart from a wide purple line that crossed the entire pe
