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The Teenage Girl Gang That Seduced And Killed Nazis (1164 Views)
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skyhighweb(m): 3:39pm On Jul 05, 2020 |
In the 1940s, sisters Freddie and Truus Oversteegen used their unassuming profile as teenagers to ambush and kill Nazis in the Netherlands. When sisters Freddie and Truus Oversteegen were young, their mother made them sleep in the same bed. This wasn’t an act of forced sibling bonding: Though the family had more than one mattress, all of them makeshift and stuffed with straw, they shared their modest flat with the Jewish refugees they regularly housed. The girls didn’t mind. Raised primarily by their mother, Trijntje, after their parents divorced, Freddie and Truus grew up as communists in what was then the village of Schoten (now part of Haarlem) in North Holland in the years before World War II. Trijntje taught the girls comion for those less fortunate than themselves. The sisters made dolls for children affected by the Spanish Civil War. They gave up their living space for people fleeing and Amsterdam. And when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, Freddie and Truus handed out pamphlets opposing the occupation and plastered warnings over propaganda posters calling for workers in . It was dangerous and subversive work. When the Nazis invaded, Trijntje made sure the refugees they'd been hosting were sent away, fearing they’d be discovered because of her family’s known communist leanings. Many were subsequently deported and killed. This stirred a fire in Freddie and Truus. When the leader of a Dutch resistance group took notice of their radical bent, he asked Trijntje if she would permit her daughters to . Freddie was 14. Truus was 16. Without knowing explicitly what they were agreeing to, the three women all said yes. And soon, the teenage girls were doing more than handing out literature. They were luring Nazis into the woods and assassinating them. Freddie and Truus were, for a time, the only two women in the seven-person rebellion dubbed the Haarlem Council of Resistance. After being recruited by commander Frans van der Wiel in 1941, the two learned the basics of sabotage, picking up tricks like how to rig railways and bridges with dynamite so travel paths would be cut off; how to fire a weapon; and how to roam undetected through an area peppered with Nazi soldiers. The latter ability was a result of their appearance. With her hair in braids, Freddie was said to have looked as young as 12 years old. Few soldiers took notice of the two girls as they...... more on the article here http://www.soundlala.com/news.php?id=1585 1 Like |
Brenn594(m): 3:48pm On Jul 05, 2020 |
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skyhighweb(m): 4:35pm On Jul 05, 2020 |
Brenn594:our own are slaying too nahh 1 Like |
illicit(m): 4:51pm On Jul 05, 2020 |
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skyhighweb(m): 7:59am On Jul 06, 2020 |
illicit:i sense a movie coming from this event |
illicit(m): 11:41am On Jul 06, 2020 |
skyhighweb: Correct |
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