Meet the Dutch girls who seduced Nazis — and lured them to their deaths [armed citizens killing Nazis]

New York Post ^ | Isabel Vincent

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Hannie Schaft and Freddie Oversteegen (right) used good looks and flirtatious ruses to coax Nazis out of Dutch bars and to their deaths -- at times pulling the triggers themselves.

Truus Oversteegen (pictured with rifle) worked along side Hannie and Freddie.

When she came across a Nazi killing an infant by repeatedly swinging its tiny body against a brick wall, Truus Oversteegen didn’t flinch.

The freckle-faced teenager, who was just three months shy of her 17th birthday when Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, was a newly minted member of the Dutch resistance. She had been mostly assigned to hide Jewish children, political dissidents and homosexuals in various safe houses throughout Haarlem, her hometown, which was about 12 miles west of Amsterdam.

But what she saw now forced her to act with a sudden, brutal energy.

“He grabbed the baby and hit it against the wall,” Truus recalled years later of the horrifying scene. “The father and sister had to watch. They were obviously hysterical. The child was dead.”

Truus quietly pointed her gun in the direction of the Nazi and shot him dead.

“That wasn’t an assignment,” she said. “But I don’t regret it . . . We were dealing with cancerous tumors in our society that you had to cut out like a surgeon.”

Truus, her younger sister, Freddie, and law student Hannie Schaft were among a handful of young women who took on clandestine roles to destabilize Nazis during the Second World War. While women’s resistance work was largely confined to spying, code-breaking and typing, few actively dared to take on the work of the Dutch trio — as underground assassins.

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Obit/More on Freddie here. Quite the counterpart to the Dutch reservist guarding a bridge when the German paratroopers seized it. He evaded into a nearby tulip field, waited a few hours until the attackers had set up a command post, then shot at the oldest most senior guy around. It probably wasn't German Para General Kurt Student [shot in the head while inside a building standing at a window a bit too long] but the Dutch weren't quite the pushovers the Germans had expected. Wikepedia overview for an idea of the conditions .

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something Gov. Northam (Va.Fem) is prolly acutely well-aware of...