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Seducing and Killing Nazis: Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII
Seducing and Killing Nazis: Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII | Sophie Poldermans
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This is the astonishing true story of three teenage Dutch girls, Hannie Schaft and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, that has inspired many throughout the world.When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in World War II, these girls took up arms against the enemy by seducing high-ranking Nazi officers, luring them into the woods and killing them. They provided Jewish children with safe houses and gathered vital intelligence for the resistance. They did what they did "because it had to be done." Above all, they tried to remain human in inhuman circumstances. Hannie Schaft was executed by the Nazis three weeks before the end of the war and became the icon of female Dutch resistance. Truus and Freddie Oversteegen survived the war, but were forever haunted by the demons of their past.
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Lauranahe
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Bailedbailed

Well, I‘m out. I made it to the halfway point, but I‘m done. I felt like I was reading someone‘s college thesis. I think seducing was mentioned once, in a paragraph, and there was some killing nazis. But it was very clinical, rushed through the story, no suspense. I think I could find a better story on Wikipedia.

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xxjenadanxx
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Panpan

I'll be honest, I'm disappointed. I expected a detailed account of the girls time in the Resistance, but its more of a general overview. It does provide some brief info on each of girls lives up to before the war, as well as mentions a few jobs they performed for the RVV in passing, but it feels like an afterthought. I wouldve loved for there to have been more detail about their missions, seductions and killings. It just feels incomplete to me.

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xxjenadanxx
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I'm not a huge fan of having to read on my computer, but at least it's interesting material.

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