Posted on 12/15/2019 6:06:54 AM PST by grundle
Hannie Schaft and Freddie Oversteegen (right) used good looks and flirtatious ruses to coax Nazis out of Dutch bars and to their deaths -- at times pulling the triggers themselves.
Truus Oversteegen (pictured with rifle) worked along side Hannie and Freddie.
When she came across a Nazi killing an infant by repeatedly swinging its tiny body against a brick wall, Truus Oversteegen didn’t flinch.
The freckle-faced teenager, who was just three months shy of her 17th birthday when Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, was a newly minted member of the Dutch resistance. She had been mostly assigned to hide Jewish children, political dissidents and homosexuals in various safe houses throughout Haarlem, her hometown, which was about 12 miles west of Amsterdam.
But what she saw now forced her to act with a sudden, brutal energy.
“He grabbed the baby and hit it against the wall,” Truus recalled years later of the horrifying scene. “The father and sister had to watch. They were obviously hysterical. The child was dead.”
Truus quietly pointed her gun in the direction of the Nazi and shot him dead.
“That wasn’t an assignment,” she said. “But I don’t regret it . . . We were dealing with cancerous tumors in our society that you had to cut out like a surgeon.”
Truus, her younger sister, Freddie, and law student Hannie Schaft were among a handful of young women who took on clandestine roles to destabilize Nazis during the Second World War. While women’s resistance work was largely confined to spying, code-breaking and typing, few actively dared to take on the work of the Dutch trio — as underground assassins.
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Yeah, I like her.
Greta is on the Nazis side, and will get the goverment to do her killing for her.
This is not a fault: at the time, it was a life-or-death necessity. All of the Allies and their military forces coordinated with the Reds; but you think the Resistance on the streets should abstain?
“What is the purpose of this article?”
To edify and entertain leftists who think that some overweight transgender with purple hair and a ring through it’s nose would have the same effect on us.
If anyone belongs on magazine covers and accepting Nobel prizes.
Compare and contrast with the 16 year old brat libtards actually listen to.
Kind of goes along with the generation of young men who had what it took to storm the beach at Normandy, fully understanding that the odds were excellent that they would die.
Incredible men.
I can find more than a few 17 yo girls that are ready to kill - welcome to da hood.
Would be a great movie!
It is a book review about an interesting chapter in the war that most of us never knew about. These kinds of reviews use to be thought of as mere book reviews before everyone became so intense.
Would be a perfect bookend film to “Flame and Citron.”
No contest. Except that You-Know-Who, while deadly in her own right, works in a completely cowardly manner through cutouts and proxies who do her lethal work. And it isn’t justice or righting wrongs motivating her; it’s the Benjamins.
It is said that after the war, it was found that 110% of the French civilian population was involved with the resistance.
In view of the proven atrocities of the WW2 Nazis and the proven fact that.men in today’s America have done the same to their own child or their girlfriend’s child in several cases, I find the story believable.
It's the way a few of my infant relatives died, only substitute "Indians" and "trees and rocks".
Hillary was actually somewhat attractive until the devil got a hold of her.Turned her into a gargoyle pretty darn quick.
I know some farm girls who are ruthless.
“...We were dealing with cancerous tumors in our society that you had to cut out like a surgeon.”
We have the same problem here except we don’t have the pecans to do it...yet.
The years have not been kind to Hillary.
“...We were dealing with cancerous tumors in our society that you had to cut out like a surgeon.”
Merciful Maude!
If you look at the pupils in Hillary’s photo, they look like shark eyes!
The woman was bad, most likely from the time she was a child.
Humans are like trees, in that some naturally grow straight and some naturally grow crooked and don’t produce anything of value.
My [retired] pastor did several lesson plans on that concept. Even then, having lived with person who was vile and was still a minor (!) I took those messages to heart.
Hurt like heck, it did. Didn’t stop me from accepting it as truth, however.
Our men and women who are raising daughters knowing how to shoot and defend themselves are raising up their daughters in the same vein as those brave Dutch girls.
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