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The Teenage Girls Who Seduced and Killed Nazis

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The Teenage Girls Who Seduced and Killed Nazis

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Freddie Oversteegen and Truus early life 

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Freddie Oversteegen and Truus early life 

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Freddie Oversteegen Freddie was born in 1925, and initially lived on a barge with her family in Schoten. Freddie and Truus’ parents raised them to resist. Once their parents divorced, Freddie and her sister were raised primarily by their mother, who taught them communist principles.

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Before the war her parents hid Lithuanian refugees in the hold of their ship before the beginning of World War II. The family would also later hide a Jewish couple in their home during the 1930s

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Given the principles they were raised with, it’s no surprise that the sisters resisted the German occupation of the Netherlands. This helped them resist against the Nazis cause that’s what they were raised to do.

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This is a picture of Freddie and her sister Truus Oversteegen at 14 and 16, when the Nazis invaded their hometown of Haarlem.

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This is a picture of Freddie and her sister Truus Oversteegen at 14 and 16, when the Nazis invaded their hometown of Haarlem.

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Freddie Oversteegen and Truus Oversteegen  during the holocaust 

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Freddie Oversteegen and Truus Oversteegen  during the holocaust 

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Freddy oversteegen was only 14 when she joined a group called the Dutch resistance during World War ll, a couple years later during the Holocaust she became an armed assassin with her sister. During all of this she was in a small village called Haarlem. Europe was on the brink of war in 1939.

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After joining the resistance and being involved in killings left her and her sisters with guilt. She felt like it did not suit her or anybody else. She also felt guilt because her best friend died while working with them. Hannie was spotted during an attempted assassination and was a wanted target of the Nazis. She was the “Girl with the Red Hair”.  She was caught in March 1945, where she was interrogated, tortured and executed.

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Freddie and Truus her sister “learned that if you have to help somebody, like refugees, you have to make sacrifices for yourself.”In May 1940, the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, they hung up posters with warning signs on them. They were cared for their life and if they would have been caught they would have been killed. Freddie and Truus learned to shoot the Nazis and would go on mini missions by themselves, flirting with the Natizs and bringing them to the woods to kill them. Later, they started to focus on killing Dutch collaborators who arrested or endangered Jewish refugees. The sisters were also smuggling children out of the Netherlands to safety.

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Oversteegen served as a board member on the National Hannie Schaft Foundation, which was established by her sister, Truus.Oversteegen experienced a series of heart attacks towards the end of her life. She died on 5 September 2018 in a nursing home in Driehuis, one day before her 93rd birthday. Freddie Oversteegen married Jan Dekker. They had three children. Her home town was Haarlem, a city in Netherlands.

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“It was a necessary evil, killing those who betrayed the good people.”- Freddie Oversteegen 

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“It was a necessary evil, killing those who betrayed the good people.”- Freddie Oversteegen 

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There is a street named after her in Haarlem which is her hometown. In 2014, Freddie and Truus were awarded the Mobilisation War Cross (Mobilisatie-Oorlogskruis) by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte for their acts of resistance during the war.

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She did not just let the Nazis control her and her family and friends, but she acted like she liked them and then later killed them. She killed them by flirting with them, brining them into the woods and shooting them or beating them.

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A picture of the kids that her and her sister smuggled in 

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A picture of the kids that her and her sister smuggled in 

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A picture of Freddy with a gun that she used to a lot 

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A picture of Freddy with a gun that she used to a lot 

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A picture of the kids that her and her sister smuggled in 

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A picture of the kids that her and her sister smuggled in 