HAS LIVED age of iron and fire and broke it lived until the end, looking into the face of horror. The horror that so many Forlì has only one image: the tortured bodies of Corbari Silvio and his fellow partisans were hanged from the lamp posts in Piazza Saffi. Benito Dazzan, Imola, class 1926, the man who caught the dreaded 'bandit Corby', disappeared a few days ago at the age of 81 years, undermined by an incurable disease. He was an enthusiastic Fascist - "I was raised in that environment, fascism was all for me, was the homeland, was the honor. Who knows, if you were born in Russia ... I might have been a communist "- and just 16 years had run away from home to enlist, to fight against the British. But after the Sept. 8, 1943 he found himself fighting the Italians. The battalion 'in September IX' Army of the Republic of social Mussolini had just won a medal in Sarnano Marche, rejecting an attack by partisans and by eliminating at the same time a German reprisal against the local population.
his unit had arrived in Castrocaro summer of 1944 just to hunt down the partisan leader Silvio Corbari, myth of the Resistance and terror of the local fascists. The 'bandit Corby' a surprise hit from the Apennines to the plain, enjoying the support of the population and even complicity of the internal front against. The department had discovered that certain Dazzan fascist militiamen forlivesi resold the weapons and passing information to the partisans. The survey was also implicated the Marquis de Gian Raniero Paulucci Calboli, then spent on weapons. But the biggest blow the Republicans had been the identification of a former member of the band Corbari, chased after being caught stealing. "The traitor, whose name was Franco Rossi - told Dazzan - led us to the hideout of Corbari, about Cornio Apennines. In testimony to the capture of Dazzan Corbari was an intelligence, as we say today, not the pitched battle that was told later. "We were only a dozen soldiers, all Romagna, because the commander had said that this was a situation that had settled between us ... There were Germans, as mentioned later, but only a wireless operator in South Tyrol. " It was he who set off pandemonium. The soldiers believed it to seize Corbari Republicans and his companions in their sleep, but the wireless did noise entering home, perhaps to steal something. The reaction of the partisans was fearless, especially that of Iris Versari, the woman Corbari, which threw the enemy to give way to others to escape. "A heroic as that of Claretta Petacci" Dazzan claimed.
FAILED the surprise, the fascists withdrew, fearing the arrival of other partisans. But the patrol crossed Dazzan Corbari again, seriously wounded with Adriano Casadei and Arturo Brush, now dying. Brought to Castrocaro, the partisans were impiccati.Poi their bodies were 'confiscated' by the fascists Forlì for the last barbarous outrage in piazza Saffi. "I had never seen such a scene - remember Dazzan - But unfortunately that was the civil war, or rather the 'uncivil war'. One killing between brothers. And the beasts were on one side. I have no regrets because I have done my duty as a soldier without rage on the enemy, but I knew that all young people to understand that these stories come from war only to hatred and revenge. "
Emanuele Chesi
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