Seduced and Killed by MIA MCTEIGUE

Freddie Oversteegen

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Hannie Schaft

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Freddie Oversteegen interview

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Who were the Oversteegen sisters before the war?

mam201 — 2025-04-03 19:02:14 UTC

Freddie and Truus Oversteegen were two young girls raised in a communist household. Their mother inspired them to fight for what was right. During the beginning of the war, the two girls were only 14 (Freddie) and 16 (Truus).

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Who was Hannie Schaft before the war?

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Hannie Schaft was a young girl who aspired to be a human rights lawyer. She was raised in a left-wing household that was very protective. After the Netherlands was invaded, students at the University of Amsterdam had to pledge their loyalty to the Nazis, she dropped out of school. Because of her education in human rights, she began on the path towards political activism.

Hannie Schaft

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Freddie and Truus Oversteegen

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“Yes, I’ve shot a gun myself and I’ve seen them fall, And what is inside us at such a moment? You want to help them get up.”- Freddie Oversteegen

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Faced with the harshness of war she still shows her humanity through it all. Freddie explains the conflicting feelings of human nature as she takes a life to save many lives. It is in her instincts to help him back up and aid him but it is in her logic that tells her to shoot them in the first place for the deeds of evil they have committed. She deals with the trauma of these events later on in her life and later speaks about it in the interviews as well.

“We are no Hitlerites, resistance fighters don’t murder children.” Hannie Schaft

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Schaft compares herself to the Nazis and highlights the nobility of the resistance in contrast to the evil of the Nazis. Even though the resistance would murder Nazis, she points out that they would never do the same atrocities that they had done. She makes this point to illustrate that their actions were motivated by a just cause, while the Hitleritres (Nazis) were heartless and brutal.

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

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Oversteegen emphasizes how her feelings about the actions that she had taken in the resistance. She feels that it was necessary to act against the Nazis and views everything that she had done as a good cause. She is confident, powerful, and proud of her accomplishments.

Acts of Resistance by Schaft and the Oversteegen Sisters

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Before the war had started, the two sisters would hide Jewish people in their homes, which was their first act of resistance against the Nazis. As the war had begun, all three girls met at the Resistance Council after deciding they wanted to make an impact, where they joined forces to work together. After being recruited by the Dutch Resistance, they bomb bridges and sabotage railways. Their primary mission, however, involved luring men from bars into the woods, where they would shoot and kill them. The Dutch Resistance recruited them because they were innocent and unsuspecting, making them unlikely suspects. Many Nazis would trust the girls, and they would successfully seduce them to their death.

“Weren’t they innocent people? Killing them was no act of reprisal. We were no terrorists. The real act of terror was the kidnapping and execution of innocent people after the resistance acted.” - Freddie Oversteegen

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The Tragic but Courageous Passing of Hannie Schaft

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On April 17, 1945, Hannie Schaft was shot and killed by a Nazi. She had been discovered riding her bike with resistance papers in her bag and a gun. However, she was not killed immediately. She was arrested when found and imprisoned in Amsterdam. A month after her arrest, two Nazi officers are walking behind her, forcing her to walk forward in the sandy dunes. One of the guards attempts to shoot Schaft in the back of the head but missed. It is said that her last words were "I'm a better shot," implying that she was a better marksman than the guard.

The Legacy of the Girls Actions

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After Hannie Schaft's passing, a foundation was established in her memory. The main focus of the Hannie Schaft Foundation is to continue the efforts of the resistance and to honor the bravery during World War II. In Amsterdam, several streets and schools are named after Schaft. She has also inspired a main character in a movie. Moreover, she and her fellow resistance fighters successfully sabotaged numerous Nazi plans and saved many Jews from persecution.