Freddie Oversteegen by Bianca Zarrella

Freddie Oversteegen

bzarrella25 — 2024-01-02 14:42:59 UTC

Freddie Oversteegen and her sister, Truus, lived in the netherlands during WWII. During this time, they joined the Dutch resistance and worked with them to do a number of different acts of resistance.

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In May of 1940, when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, her, her sister, and her mother all distributed anti-Nazi newspapers.

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In the resistance group, Freddie and Truus were trained to sabotage and kill Nazi soldiers, which is what they ended up doing right after, seducing the soldiers and leading them into the woods to be shot.

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Impact

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They showed how powerful one person could be against hardships. They were strong and skilled and used their advantages against evil.

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Both Freddie and Truus lived until the age of 92, Freddie passing away in 2018 and Truus in 2016.

Freddie Oversteegen

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“They were unusual, these girls,” says Bas von Benda-Beckmann, a former researcher at the Netherlands’ Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. “There were a lot of women involved in the resistance in the Netherlands but not so much in the way these girls were."

bzarrella25 — 2024-01-02 14:59:17 UTC

Freddie and Truus would bomb railway lines that the Germans used to block the Germans access to it.

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“We did not feel it suited us,” Truss told Jonker of their assassinations. “It never suits anybody, unless they are real criminals.”