sentences:  When Kesselring was freed, he refused to repent for his crimes and claimed the Italians ought to build him a monument for his good work there.Calamandrei responded with this poem, stating that if Kesselring returned, he would indeed find a monument but one stronger than stone and comprising Italian resistance fighters who "willingly took up arms, to preserve dignity, not to promote hate, and who decided to fight back against the shame and terror of the world.