Porzûs massacre

So as you mentioned, and I had alluded to earlier, Paola was part of the Osoppo Brigade, which was made up of Catholics, socialists, and others with more moderate political views compared to, say, the communists.

So tell us a little bit about the Porzus massacre and which we've mentioned earlier, exactly why it happened.

Porzus is the deepest wound in the history of the Italian resistance precisely because it was Italians killing Italians.

By February 1945, the fault line between the communist Garibaldi Brigades and the non-communist Osoppo had become a full rupture.

The Garibaldi formations in Friuli had passed under the command of the 19th Corpus, the Slovenian partisan force under Tito.

They said territorial question should be decided after the war.

That refusal cost them their lives.

On February 7th, around 80 communist partisans arrived at the Osoppo command post near Porzus.