Anti-Fascist Reprisal

And we were going through one of the big squares, I can't, piazzas, I don't know which one when all of a sudden we were seized almost by some Italians and taken over to where there was a crowd of Italians and we were pushed right into the front row of that group and lying on the ground, on the concrete, not the concrete but whatever it was of the ground, was a man, Italian. And when we got there they were undressing his top and guess what they did, they took out his heart while he was alive. That was a fascist they were doing that to but they were the people that were non-fascist and they wanted us to see them getting their revenge, I suppose. And we nearly died when they finally let us go, we got back to the hotel and I think that the officers thought, the medical officers thought that something happened to us, something terrible like we'd been raped, and they got us a drink and sat us down and then they heard our story and of course if there hadn't of been two of us they wouldn't have believed it.