'Seducing and Killing Nazis'
Dan Snow's History Hit
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4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
During the Second World War the Netherlands fell to advancing German forces in just a few hours. The Dutch found themselves under Nazi occupation. Many men and women resisted, which took many different forms. Recently the story emerged of three young women who chose a particularly dangerous way in which to strike back against the German occupiers.
In this podcast Dan talks to the writer Sophie Poldermans about Hannie Schaft and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen. With astonishing bravery these three young women seduced high-ranking Nazi officers, lured them into the woods and killed them. They also provided Jewish children with safe houses and gathered vital intelligence for the resistance.
Sophie tells us their story.
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| 1:02.3 | Hello everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. I'm just recording podcast and films for |
| 1:08.5 | the History Hit podcast and the TV channel History Hit.tv. We just had James Holland back in. |
| 1:14.2 | I mean second world war legend for a proper grilling about the air war. We've had haily |
| 1:19.8 | now talking about Anne Berlin. We're going to be discussing whether or not Hitler did in fact die in |
| 1:26.1 | the bunker in Berlin. Of course he did. We're going to be debunking the conspiracy theories. What |
| 1:30.6 | we're going to be doing. So all sorts going on today. But I'm here to talk to you about a very |
| 1:35.0 | different podcast. This one that's coming up. It features the Dutch historian and writer, Sophie |
| 1:42.0 | Poldermanns. She tells the most extraordinary story of three young women who joined the resistance |
| 1:48.2 | after the Netherlands fell to Nazi German forces. 80 years ago this spring these three young women |
| 1:55.9 | Annie Shaft and the sisters Trussen Freddie Overseengan were astonishing bravery. Join the resistance, |
| 2:01.0 | carried out various tasks. But one of them was to seduce German officers, take them into the woods |
| 2:08.9 | and kill them. It's really one of the most extraordinary war-time stories that I've heard. |
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