Father Davide Maria Turoldo, a prominent Milanese figure of the Resistance, along with Father Camillo De Piaz and Monsignor Giovanni Barbareschi, who, as a deacon, blessed the poor corpses, recalls that scene: “We will never forget the pile of 15 corpses, one against the other, like rubble... That pile, at the entrance of the square, next to a gas station, as if it were a heap of cans. Guarded by the auxiliaries, young women who from time to time wiped their shoes on the bodies of the dead; while the blood from the pile spread onto the square... And Milan passed by in silence; it circled around that pile, in silence, and looked. And turned back. That was the longest procession of my life; I kept telling myself during the walk: 'Yet they will not win… they cannot win, despite the massacres.'”