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Seducing and Killing Nazis: Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII (1)

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This is the astonishing true story of three teenage Dutch girls, Hannie Schaft and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, that has inspired many throughout the world. When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in World War II, these girls took up arms against the enemy by seducing high-ranking Naz...

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Freddie Oversteegen was a teenager when WW ll broke out. She was a Dutch resistance who lived with her slightly older sister and single Mother. Her sister Truus was 2 years older than her and lived in the city. Throughout their lives their Mother has always taught them to fight for social injustices. When WW ll started and they heard about Jewish individuals being taken away and killed they started to take Jewish refugees into their home. When Nazis invaded the Netherlands the two sisters began to distribute anti-Nazi signs and pamphlets for the disturbed resistance. Doing this was very risky for the sisters and if anyone saw them passing these out they would of been killed. Which is why they tried to look as young as possible. They would wear braids and young clothes to try and fit in and have no one suspect them being in the resistance. In 1941 a commander visited the girls house and asked them to join the resistance. they all agreed to join and help but they had no idea what they were actually signing up for. For example of the instances they came across as Truus the older sister had to seduce and lead a SS officer into the woods and in plan one of the members of the resistance would shoot him. As time went on both sister we than tried to shoot Nazi officers and eventually they became assassinations. These girls were so involved with the resistance that they began to get recognition from the other members. Bas von Benda-Bechmann a former researcher for a war institution said “They were unusual, these girls,”. There were many woman that were in the resistance but not like these sisters and they were the very few woman that actually were trained to shoot officials.

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Hidden Heroes (1999) ⭐ 8.0 | Documentary

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“A war like this is a very raw experience. While I was biking, I saw Germans picking up innocent people from the streets, putting them against a wall and shooting them. I was forced to watch, which aroused such an enormous anger in me, such a disgust, a feeling of ‘dirty bastards.’ You can have any political conviction or be totally against war, but at that moment you are just a human being confronted with something very cruel. Shooting innocent people is murder. If you experience something like this, you’ll find it justified that when people commit treason, such as exchanging a four-year-old Jewish child for 35 guilders (Dutch currency at that time), you act against it." (Page 51)

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A symbol to represent the sisters would be woods because that is where they were such and lead German officials and than set up someone else for the perfect shot to kill them.

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“Yes, I've shot a gun myself and I've seen them fall,”

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This was made because the sisters mother was executed by German Officials just weeks before the war ended

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Original title: Het meisje met het rode haar

The story of Hannie Schaft, Dutch Resistance, told in flashback as they try to bring collaborators and criminals to justice in 1945. The story of Hannie Schaft, Dutch Resistance, told in flashback as they try to bring collaborators and criminals to justice in 1945. The story of Hannie Schaft, Dutch Resistance, told in flashback as they try to bring collaborators and criminals to justice in 1945.

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Renée Soutendijk plays her first leading role as a young law student who joins the Dutch resistance in WWII and trains to be a liquidator. Having already garnered attention the year before in Paul Verhoeven's controversial "Spetters", Soutendijk decided to leave the sitcom Zeg 'ns Aaa (wich had not yet found a big audience) to concentrate on a career in film rather than television. The movie was shot to resemble black and white pictures from the period and looks suitably bleak and gray, making the lead characters's red hair stand out even more. Eventually circumstances force her to dye it (it made her the most recognizable resistance fighter) and at that point both the story and the film seem to lose all color. Not that there was anything to laugh about in the first place.

Debutant director and co-writer Ben Verbong decided to omit any references to Jannetje Johanna Schaft (the girl with the red hair) being a communist, even though that was one of the main reasons for her to join the resistance. There is hardly any dialog anyway, as none of the group members want too much emotional attachments. Even when she get romantically involved with fellow resistance fighter Hugo, they never seem especially passionate. The sparseness of the spoken word makes this picture seem even more like a psychological study of the lengths people will go to in desperate times as we watch the title character struggle with becoming a hit woman on a bicycle.

Although the film is certainly well made and Soutendijk proves to be a capable lead, there is absolutely nothing uplifting in the entire picture. The combination of long silent scenes and colorless photography makes for quite a depressive sitting. The period is recreated in great detail, with only Loes Luca's different hairstyles seeming to be a little out of place at times. Verbong and Soutendijk teamed up again in 1994 for the "Sliver" like thriller 'De Flat'. This marked Renée's return to Dutch films after a stint in Hollywood and Verbong's goodbye from his homeland, as he decided to move to Germany after wards.

7 out of 10

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The Girl with the Red Hair: Directed by Ben Verbong. With Renée Soutendijk, Peter Tuinman, Loes Luca, Johan Leysen. The story of Hannie Schaft, Dutch Resistance, told in flashback as they try to bring collaborators and criminals to justice in 1945.

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The sisters, Freddie and Truus as well as their mother were apart of the anti-Nazi resistance. The sisters were trained to kill German officials while their mother helped hide Jewish people and spread the word about the resistance. in the end the sisters survived but the mother was executed before the war ended.

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Truus and Freddie Oversteegen: Sisters & Resistance Fighters

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Like most sisters, Truus and Freddie Oversteegen did not always get along. Truus, as the older of the two, was more assertive and dictatorial, and felt she was entitled to boss Freddie around. Fred…

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THE RESISTANCE Truus and Freddie Oversteegen: What'sHerName Podcast Episode 64