seduced and killed by Bentley Baker

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Little,Becky. ”This Teenager Killed Nazis With Her Sister During WWII.”History,A&E Television Networks, 20 June 2023 , https://www.history.com/news/dutch-resistance-teenager- killed-nazis-freddie-oversteegen. Accessed 4 March 2025

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Poldermans, sophie. ”As Teenagers, These Sisters Resisted the Nazis. Here’s What They Taught Me About Doing the Right Thing.”Time, 30 August 2019, https://time.com/5661142/dutch-resistance-friendship/. Accessed 4 March 2025.

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Freddie and Truus, who was two years older, grew up in the city of Haarlem with a single mother. Their mother considered herself a communist and taught her daughters the importance of fighting injustice.

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These acts weren’t just subversive, they were also dangerous. If the Nazis or Dutch police caught the sisters, they might have killed them. However, the fact that they were both young girls and Freddie looked even younger when she wore braids meant that officials were less likely to suspect them of working for the resistance. This be the reason , in 1941, a commander with the Haarlem Resistance Group visited their house to ask their mother if he could recruit Freddie and Truus.

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In at least one instance, Truus seduced an SS officer into the woods so that someone from the resistance could shoot him.The commander who recruited them had said, Freddie and Truus learned to shoot Nazis too, and the sisters began to go on assassination missions by themselves. Later on, they focused on killing Dutch collaborators who arrested or endangered Jewish refugees and resistance members.

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Freddie was especially good at following a target or keeping a lookout during missions since she looked so young and unsuspecting . Both sisters were shot to kill, but they never revealed how many Nazis and Dutch collaborators they assassinated. According to Pliester, Freddie would tell people who asked that she and her sister were soldiers, and soldiers don’t say.

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Both women died at age 92 Truus in 2016, and Freddie on September 5, 2018, one day before she turned 93. Throughout much of their long lives, the Netherlands failed to properly recognize the women’s achievements and sidelined them as communists. In 2014, they finally received national recognition for their service to their country by receiving the Mobilisatie-Oorlogs kruis, or “War Mobilization Cross.”

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Hannie Schaft was executed by the Nazis three weeks before the end of the war. This legendary fighter known as the girl with the red hair became the icon of female Dutch resistance. Truus and Freddie Oversteegen survived the war, but carried emotional scars for the rest of their lives.

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“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.

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If you experience something like this, you’ll find it justified to act against it,” Truus once told me, as I recount in my book about the trio, Seducing and Killing Nazis. “Once, I was confronted with an SS soldier, a Dutch SS soldier even, who was killing a small baby by hitting it against a wall. He grabbed the baby and hit it against the wall. The father and sister had to watch. They were obviously hysterical. The child was dead. I shot that guy. Right there and then. That wasn’t an assignment, but I don’t regret it.”