Amazing life:<\/p>\n
Freddie Oversteegen, Gritty Dutch Resistance Fighter, Dies at 92<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Freddie Oversteegen was only 14, petite with long braids, when she became an assassin and saboteur.<\/p>\n It was 1940, Germany had invaded the Netherlands, and she and her sister, Truus, who was two years older, had been recruited by the local Dutch resistance commander, in the city of Haarlem.<\/p>\n \u201cOnly later did he tell us what we\u2019d actually have to do: Sabotage bridges and railway lines,\u201d\u00a0Truus Menger-Oversteegen<\/a>\u00a0recalled in a 2014 book, \u201cUnder Fire: Women and World War II.\u201d \u201cWe told him we\u2019d like to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n Then the commander added, \u201c \u2018And learn to shoot \u2014 to shoot Nazis,\u2019 \u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cI remember my sister saying, \u2018Well, that\u2019s something I\u2019ve never done before!\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazing life: Freddie Oversteegen, Gritty Dutch Resistance Fighter, Dies at 92 Freddie Oversteegen was only 14, petite with long braids, when she became an assassin and saboteur. It was 1940, Germany had invaded the Netherlands, and she and her sister, Truus, who was two years older, had been recruited by the local Dutch resistance commander, … Continue reading Freddie Oversteegen, Gritty Dutch Resistance Fighter, Dies at 92<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nyt_obit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}