Behind Enemy Lines: The Untold Stories of Italy’s Female Warriors Who Sabotaged the Nazis
HM: Teresa and Carla were both elected officials later on, and Teresa helped write the new constitution, right?
SC: Yes!
HMM: Talk about putting your resistance values to work.
SC: And she wouldn’t have even been thirty at the time when she was doing that.
HMM: I was struck by the irony – I don’t know if it’s irony – but the way that men kept underestimating these women allowed them to do the work they had been doing and to do the work that men could not do because they would have been caught or murdered.
