Little Known History: 3 Dutch girls who seduced Nazis — and lured them to their deaths

I happened to be on BBC News and a 4 minute documentary video popped up about 3 girls from the Netherlands who became a killing force in the resistance to a takeover of their country by Nazis. It's an interesting story, and the NY Post covered the story in 2019. Part of their article appears below, with the BBC Video. The article noted there is also a book about the girls and their exploits. Sounds fascinating.

Meet the Dutch girls who seduced Nazis — and lured them to their deaths

By Isabel VincentDecember 14, 2019 | 11:44am |

Truus Oversteegen, a 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.

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

That’s the theme of the recently published “Seducing and Killing Nazis: Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of World War II” (SWW Press), which documents the exploits of the three young Dutch resistance fighters whose dangerous work set them apart.

Although their roles in the underground were at first confined to stealing Dutch identity documents to help persecuted Jews, the girls quickly graduated to more ruthless duties.

Freddie, who was just 14 when she began to work for the resistance, was often mistaken for a schoolgirl and was dispatched as a courier delivering important messages during the occupation. But later, all three young women worked to seduce Nazis: applying makeup and bright red lipstick to pick up soldiers at bars and lure them to their deaths.

Truus Oversteegen (pictured with rifle) worked along side Hannie and Freddie. North Holland Archives Truus quietly pointed her gun in the direction of the Nazi and shot him dead.

BBC VIDEO (4 minutes) Three girls in resistance 14 JANUARY 2020|WORLD WAR TWO During WW2, the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands turned three teenage girls into fierce resistance fighters.

 VIDEO: https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0808hpm/the-teenage-dutch-girls-who-seduced-and-killed-nazis