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Willem Arondeus

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4.8644 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Today's mini-episode is on Dutch World War II resistance fighter Willem Arondeus. Learn about his life as an artist, incredibly brave efforts to combat the Nazi regime and the origins of his famous last words. Sources

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Queer's Facts, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.

0:04.8

My name is Eli. I'm Alice.

0:06.6

In today's mini-episode, we're talking about the life of the World War II Dutch resistance fighter, Willem Orondius.

0:20.4

Given that this is in World War II, you might guess that we have some content warnings

0:24.0

for you, and those content warnings are the Nazis.

0:26.7

You sound so cheerful.

0:28.0

Well, look, Alice, I'm excited to be recording with you here on this fine day.

0:33.3

I'm sorry that you don't feel the same.

0:35.6

Oh, my goodness.

0:36.8

I probably should turn down a little like chippet as well, though,

0:39.8

because unfortunately this episode also contains executions,

0:44.8

not mention of executions, like full on-screen executions.

0:47.7

Oh, okay.

0:48.2

Yes.

0:48.6

And also parietpical homophobia, and I guess implicitly anti-sanitism.

0:53.5

And we're also going to talk about poverty and a relationship with some amount of age.

0:58.6

Okay.

0:59.1

So if any of that sounds like something that you would rather not listen to, feel free to skip this one and tune in next time.

1:05.2

Before we probably begin, I wanted to talk about sources a little bit, more properly about how

1:10.4

there kind of just

1:11.2

really aren't any in English that are up to scratch, I feel, which is why this is a mini

1:16.5

episode.

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