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True Weird Stuff

Teenage Nazi Hunters

True Weird Stuff

Now! Media

History, Science, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9655 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Today's True Weird Stuff - Teenage Nazi Hunters

 

Meet Freddie and Truus Oversteegen. Freddie was a wife and mother. Truus was a sculptor and painter. But long before that, these two sisters spent their teenage years as part of the anti-Nazi Dutch resistance during WWII. They used their lethal skills and innocent charm to eliminate Nazi soldiers.

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0:00.0

Hey, true weirdos, at the end of this episode, stick around if you want for a little bonus content and conversation.

0:08.5

She was only 14 years old that first time.

0:12.2

14 pretending to be older, more worldly.

0:15.9

It hadn't been hard to persuade the man to follow her and seldom is.

0:20.2

A little flirting, a hand lingering lingering just a beat too long on his

0:24.7

arm the sleeve of his uniform crisp beneath her trembling fingers a stroll in the nearby forest she

0:31.5

suggested holding his gaze in a way that she hoped seemed bold hoped he'd mistake the slight tremor in her voice for nerves,

0:39.7

a young woman being so terribly forward. Her arm tucked into his, the couple left the bar,

0:46.9

making their way along the path deeper and deeper into the sheltering darkness. The man whirled,

0:52.6

pressing her back against the rough bark of the tree, his hands suddenly

0:56.2

everywhere.

0:57.8

That's when she did it.

0:59.7

That's when in one motion that felt like forever, that felt the way time slows and stutters

1:07.5

in a dream, she slid the revolver from the pocket of her woolen coat and pressing it to his head pulled the trigger.

1:15.7

It was Dutch resistant fighter Freddie Overstagin's first time killing a Nazi.

1:20.5

Turns out, she had a real talent for it.

1:25.0

And they got a small beam of light against the mirror.

1:44.9

True, weird, weird, stuff.

1:52.7

Freddie Oversigam was born in 1925 in the Dutch city, Harlem.

1:54.3

It's an ancient place.

1:58.7

The first mentions of Harlem appear in writings dating back to the 10th century.

2:03.5

Residents of Harlem were used to being under siege. First, from nature, the city occupies a narrow strip of land between the turbulent North Sea and the River I and the

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