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The boys were the first to join the resistance movement against the Germans because

The boys were the first to join the resistance movement against the Germans because the Germans had ruined their family.

When the author saw Nicola and Jacopo were meeting their sister Lucia in a hospital, he asked the nurse about them. The nurse told him that their father was a widower who was a singer, had been killed in the early part of the war. Soon after, their house was destroyed by a bomb and the three of them came into the streets. To keep themselves alive, they built a small shelter from the rubble of their home. As the Germans had completely ruined their family, the boys grew to hate the Germans and were the first to join the resistance movement against them.