The youngest themselves were not free from being arrested and put on trial, and getting them to confess was child’s play. It only took a single night of interrogation to get one ten-year-old detainee to admit that he had joined a fascist organization at the age of seven. Other kids who were not suspects themselves were forced to publicly approve of the arrests and executions of their parents for having been spies.[cclvii] Their entire class or school would assemble and the student would be berated until they denounced their mother and/or father in front of their fellow classmates.
