The girl who executed Nazis after seducing them in bars dies aged 92

[RandySF]

Daily Mail
By: Miranda Aldersley

A World War II heroine who used her harmless appearance to gain the trust of Nazis before executing them has died in The Netherlands, aged 92.

Freddie Oversteegen was born in Haarlem, near Amsterdam on September 6, 1925 and raised by her communist mother.

She was just 14 when she joined the Dutch resistance, the Daily Mail reports.

Together with her older sister Truus and their friend Hannie Schaft, she blew up bridges and railway tracks with dynamite, smuggled Jewish children out of concentration camps and executed as many Nazis as she could, using a firearm hidden in the basket of her bike.


https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12131326

[smirkymonkey]

1. K&R

[Raine]

2. A true heroine

I hadn't heard of her ... thanks for posting this!

[mysteryowl]

28. This would make a great movie!

[Kind of Blue]

3. Wow! Thank you, Ms. Oversteegen

for your bad-ass service. What a woman.

[DoctorJoJo]

4. My Dutch Ancestors Would Be So Proud, As Am I. I Never Before Knew About This Heroine.

[customerserviceguy]

24. Too bad none of us did

Hollywood's had long enough to make a movie about her life by now.

[MicaelS]

39. I doubt a movie about her will ever get made.

A 14 year old girl, actually executing men in cold-blood? Even it being a true story, the controversy over it would be be a shitstorm. No studio would want the publicity.

[lpbk2713]

5. Badass

May she rest in peace.

[irisblue]

6. 🇳🇱 🕯️

Badass woman

[Tipperary]

7. Girl?

No. A woman who was a hero.

[lunamagica]

23. She was 14 years old, so yes, she was a girl. A girl hero. A child hero

[rustydog]

8. Mr. Trump THIS is a Very Fine human being

She fought the evil you curry the favor of.

[madaboutharry]

9. She did look sweet and innocent.

She was only 14 years old when she joined the resistance. Some people born to bravery.

[harumph]

10. And that folks - is how to handle Nazis.

[FakeNoose]

11. According to Wikipedia, she passed on Sept. 5, 2018

(link) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Oversteegen

I needed to check this because I was pretty sure I'd read about her. She died one day before her 93rd birthday, but it was back in September.

[RandySF]

13. I see that just now.

Someone just brought it up on Twitter. But, sounds like she's still work talking about.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

19. She sure is! Better late than never.

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. True bravery. nt

[oasis]

14. Her story would make a great film. RIP Freddie.

[SunSeeker]

15. I want to see that movie!!

[yaesu]

17. There is a 1981 movie based on her story called The Girl With the Red Hair nt

[oasis]

18. Thanks. I'll look in to it.

[liberalnarb]

16. The real life Inglourious Basterds were women.

[Volaris]

20. Ok there's no part of that story that isn't badass lol!

And on another note, our American neo-nazis must just be fake little bitch Nazis...because if they're complaining about getting hit in the head, that just seems kinda ....I dunno ...WEAK? on their part honestly heh...

[smb]

30. I Recall A Friend's Rant About Modern "Neo-Nazis"

"These losers would have been among the first ones shipped off to the camps by real Nazis. Back in the day, chins and foreheads were a must for membership in the Master Race[tm], as was possession of exactly ten fingers and toes!"

[Volaris]

36. Yes exactly. Himmler would have slapped the little bitch right off these pricks.

There was a time in this nations history where if you were openly self-identified as a Nazi, there was a good chance you'd get shot for it, and the shooter would get a medal for the cost of buying his own bullet and saving the government the 50 cents for use elsewhere in the war effort. So complaining about a split lip seems like the Nazi version of cos-playing.

And we should call them out on it.

[sdfernando]

38. and its funny too because Himmler really had a very weak chin. /nt

[Xolodno]

21. I will not "high five" in this thread as many have.

This had to emotionally and psychologically harm them. They had to know, that some of their targets were just ordinary youth who may have not believed in the country dogma, but were required to participate. But someone just "following orders" is still a dangerous foe, if they were captured, those same soldiers would have shot and killed them....and been haunted by it.

I'll celebrate their helping to end the war. But I won't cheer on of killing of lives. I'm fairly sure, they never liked and disdained the killing of another life. Killing another life, damages a soul forever.

[Myrddin]

25. "shot and killed' would be best-case scenario

The Gestapo would have literally tortured them to death.

They were not at ease with the killings either.

More info at:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/freddie-oversteegen-who-assassinated-nazis-teenage-resistance-fighter-has-died-92-180970319/

[Chin music]

27. Wow.

[Xolodno]

41. Yeah...I know.

...due to religious beliefs, many of my ancestors died horrendous deaths. Some whipped by rose bushes...and they didn't whip them like in the movies, they hit them...then drag the thorny bushes down their body.

I've been to museums that show torture devices, an unlike everyone else around me, I'm not surprised by them because I was already aware of them.

[Tarc]

34. "just ordinary youth who may have not believed in the country dogma"

Did you know that they had a special term for those who joined the Nazi party for reasons other than hatred of Jews? The ones that joined because of the threats that they perceived from European neighboring states. because they felt the WWI sanctions were unfair, or for reasons of simple national pride?

Do you know what that special term was?

Nazis.

History does not differentiate between the possibly good-natured Nazis and the murderous, genocidal Nazis.

Because the distinctions were 100% irrelevant.

[Xolodno]

40. So in your view...

...I should go and piss on Oscar Schindler's grave. He was a member of the Nazi Party and war profiteer. Likewise, all the Nazi's who attempted to assassinate Hitler.

I feel compassion on these women because of the horrific thing they were forced to do....you on the other hand, are without realizing it, are making a case for the Nazi's.

[Tarc]

44. Theuy were not forced, they had the courage to do what was right in the face of adversity

You could learn something from that.

[pansypoo53219]

22. another pair of siser did this. one died several months ago.

[Chin music]

26. "How do you feel? (after shooting someone)..Like you want to help them get up."

[Victor_c3]

29. Damn, talk about courage

Yet, supposedly it’s just men who are the only ones who are capable of being courageous, fighting, and dying for our nation in many of the combat arms jobs within our military.

Her mention of how the act of killing impacted her and her friends holds true for nearly every one of my fellow combat veterans that I run into at the VA.

[redgreenandblue]

31. Heroic? Maybe. Still not a person I'd ever want to be around.

Snipers. Assassins. There's just something about em.

[leftynyc]

32. May the memory of this wonderful

courageous, badass woman be a blessing.

[OMGWTF]

33. Back when we all agreed Nazis were bad people. WTF happened?

[DirtEdonE]

35. Fourteen years old fighting nazis!

Can you imagine?

Yet we have people who call themselves nazis marching in our streets, they've infiltrated our our police departments, our military, OUR GOVERNMENT, THEY ARE IN THE WHITE HOUSE, right here in our country today.

I wish we all had the courage of little fourteen year old Freddie Oversteegen. We'd have this current situation solved in short order.

FIGHT LIKE A GIRL, AMERICA!

[FiveGoodMen]

37. Besides courage, SHE had this going for her:

She knew who the enemy was.

If only America had that advantage.

At the moment, it's still 2 against 1.

If we let it slide much longer, non-Nazis might be the minority.

[DirtEdonE]

45. That's how it happened in 1930s Germany

It started with hitler at only 30 percent or so support. Good people did nothing. We might be past the tipping point here already.

[dlk]

42. An Amazing Woman of Great Courage - Her Story is Worth Sharing with the World

[Stuart G]

43. K and R..nt.