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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Babes with sten guns.
Hot
Ping
“Babes with sten guns.”
But what would Bloomberg say - can’t have that now, can we?
This could be a good study of two 16 yrs olds, 75 years apart.
VS Greta T.
Classic honey trap.
Straight out of a Quentin Tarantino movie.
Truus quietly pointed her gun in the direction of the Nazi and shot him dead.”
And off he went to his Maker, pure evil...
You think you’ve pretty much heard it all with respect to the 20th century wars but there is always more.
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Heh. My wife is a Dutch girl. :-)
Greta, how dare you!
Imagine if Hillary would have won in 2016
Your daughter may have had to kill Democrats in this manner because the Democrats employ the same tactics as what the Nazis did.
” in the Business
of Killin’ Nazi’s,
Business is Booming!”
.
INGLORIOUS Bastards
“I have a message for Germany!”
Any good liberal/progressive/dumb*ss of the 40s would have taken those weapons away from those evil NRA women. ;-)
Why is the New York Post putting this story out?
Oh that’s right they call us conservatives ‘Nazis’ and their loyal liberal supporters seem like they’d be only too anxious to start killing ‘Nazis’.
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