The forgotten story of WWII’s baby face murderers who, only 14 and 16 years old, seduced Nazis in bars before they lureed them to their death

Sisters Freddie and Truus Oversteegen blew bridges and railways with dynamite, smuggled Jewish children from concentration camps and performed as many Nazis as they could, with the help of a firearm hidden in the basket of their bike.

They were only teenagers at the outbreak of the Second World War, but they soon used their harmless appearance to win the trust of the officers before they attracted them to their death.

Now their stories are in the spotlight again after they have been shared on Instagram, with fans called for their heroic acts against the face of evil to be made in films, who get the ‘Seven Million Spider-Man or Batman-Reboots’ viewers instead instead.

Freddie and Truus came to the Dutch Resistance at 14 and 16 years respectively, after witnessing horrible violence by the Nazis, who invaded their home country, the Netherlands, in 1940.

Truus, born on August 29, 1923, in Schoten, protected Jewish children, dissidents and homosexuals in safe houses in Haarlem, near Amsterdam, during the Second World War.

But 16 years old she saw a baby who was damaged for his family by a Nazi – and after the frightening moment she and her younger sister Freddie turned to kill all the soldiers they could.

Truus remembered in Sophie Poldermans’ Seducing and killing Nazis: Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch resistance hero of the Second World War: “He grabbed the baby and hit him against the wall.

“The father and sister had to look. They were clearly hysterical. The child was dead, “said the resistance hunter, according to the New York Post.

Truus claimed that she pointed and shot her gun on him, and added that she was not sorry that she had beaten the ‘cancer -like tumors in our society’.

In addition to her sister Freddie, born in Haarlem, near Amsterdam on 6 September 1925, and raised by their communist mother, and their law student friend Hannie Schaft, the trio played a clandestine role in the resistance.

The team had a routine: first approaches the Nazi men in bars, and, after they have successfully seduced them, ask if they ‘wanted to go for a walk’ in the forest, where, as Freddie said it herself, they would be ‘liquidated’.

“We had to do it,” she told an interviewer. “It was a necessary evil, in which those who have betrayed the good people killed.” When asked how many people she had killed or helped, she played: “One shouldn’t ask a soldier.”

Freddie acted as a courier for the resistance to start with, but was soon set up in seducing Nazis with bright red lipstick and pretended she was drunk next to her sister and a 20-year-old Hannie.

The law student, who had red hair and crystal-white teeth, by learning himself in the role by German and perfecting casual conversations with the soldiers.

After they had lure them in the forest, she or a male companion would quickly shoot the modest officer.

Author Mrs. Poldermans explained: ‘They were murderers, but they also tried to stay hard to stay. They tried to shoot their goals from behind so that they didn’t know they would die. ‘

The sisters have never revealed how many people they have killed and despite the fact that Mrs. Poldermans have been friends with them for 20 years, it is not in her book.

But Truus confesses that it breaks down in tears or fainting after he killed someone, adding “I was not born to kill.”

Freddie – who died on 5 September 2018, a day before her 93rd birthday – was the last surviving member of the most famous female resistance cell in the Netherlands, who devoted their lives to fighting Nazi occupiers and Dutch ‘traitors’.

The female members of the Dutch resistance are often overlooked, and it was and is still often considered the effort of a man.

However, this kind of thinking turned out to be a fatal mistake for many Nazi men, who did not recognize the threat of the Oversteegen -sisters while they drove their bikes around Haarlem, were looking for goals when looking forward to other executions.

Both Oversteegen sisters survived the war. Truus found work as an artist and was inspired to write a memoir and based on her experiences in the resistance. She died in 2016.

Told Freddie Shame That she dealt with the traumas of the war “by getting married and having babies.”

She married Jan Dekker and their three children survive her, just like her four grandchildren.

Speaking after the death of his mother in 2018, Freddie’s son Remi Dekker told the Observer: ‘If you ask me, the war only ended two weeks ago.

‘In her mind it was still going on, and further and further. It didn’t stop, even until the last day … She shot a few people, and these were the real, real bad guys. But she hated it and she hated herself that she did it. ‘

In the years prior to her death, Freddie suffered from various heart attacks in the nursing home in Driehuis, where she lived – about five miles outside of Haarlem.

The friend of the Oversteegen brothers and sisters Hannie Schaft, a one -off law student with fiery red hair, was captured and executed by the Nazis, just a few weeks before they surrendered.

“Hannie was her soulmate friend. Freddie could never understand why the Nazis killed her just before the end of the war. She always brought red roses to her grave, “Manon Hornstra revealed, after the youngest Sister Sister had shared a lot of her war memories with the documentary maker.

In honor of Hannie, Truus founded the National Hannie Schaft Foundation in 1996. Freddie served as a board member.

“Schaft became the national icon of female resistance,” said Jeroen Pliester, the chairman of the foundation. Her story was taught to Dutch children and told in a Dutch film from 1981, ‘The Girl With The Red Hair’.

For the sisters, their work with the resistance was not something they would ever regret, but it left his emotional scars.

They both dealt with ‘Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), continuous nightmares, screaming and fighting in their sleep’, Human Rights Activist MS Poldermans revealed to the Time magazine Time 2019999999999999999999999999999999999999999111 2019 2019 2019 20199999 E Were991999999999999983111113313313111111115222222221111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 box -11111111111As11111As1As1a’s1a’s1a’s1a’s1a’s d1a’s dam that ‘to.

The author added: ‘These women never saw themselves as heroines. They were extremely dedicated and believed that they had no other option than to join the resistance. They never regretted what they did during the war. ‘

“It was tragic and very difficult and we cried afterwards,” said Truus, about the feeling of killing someone.

‘We didn’t feel that it had been suitable for us – it never suits someone unless they are real criminals. They lose everything. It poisons the beautiful things in life. ‘

Their mother gave Truus and Freddie only one rule, “always stay human,” the sisters recalled.

The Dutch newspaper IJmuider Courant, reported that Freddie once told an interviewer: ‘I shot a gun myself and I saw them fall. And what’s in us at such a moment? You want to help them get up. ‘

During the later years of her life, Freddie sought more recognition of her role, and both sisters eventually received the Dutch Mobilization War Cross in 2014, before a street was named after each of them.

“So many years after doing their work in the shade, they were happy for public recognition,” Mrs. Poldermans told the publication.

“They wanted their stories to become known – people learn that, as Truus put it, even if the work is difficult,” you must always remain human. ” ‘