*Three* Women to Know: Hannie Schaft, Truus Oversteegen and Freddie Oversteegen
They were unusual, these girls. — Bas von Benda-Beckmann
They were unusual, these girls. — Bas von Benda-Beckmann
(The Oversteegen sisters, image via Wikimedia Commons)
When the Nazis occupied the Netherlands in 1940, Hannie Schaft was a 19-year-old college student. But because she refused to pledge allegiance to Germany, she had to drop out of school. She threw her energy into the underground Resistance, soon …
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