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StClone

(11,869 posts) Sat Aug 14, 2021, 11:28 PM Aug 2021

The Red-headed Girl-National Hero of Netherlands-Nazi Killer [View all]

Hannie Schaft is little known outside her homeland whose heroic resistance against the Nazis evokes deep admiration and inspiration. If you need a model of dauntless courage and fierce defiance against nationalism, authoritarianism, white supremacy, and anti-democratic worldviews Hannie is the paragon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannie_Schaft

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The Red-headed Girl-National Hero of Netherlands-Nazi Killer [View all] StClone Aug 2021 OP

Quite an interesting story in the Wikipedia link. Hoyt Aug 2021 #1

Women across western Europe.... SergeStorms Aug 2021 #2

Russian women did everything from being snipers to driving tanks to flying fighter planes. marie999 Aug 2021 #4

Wow, and her own colleagues informed on her. mdelaguna Aug 2021 #3

I sent this to my college roommate who most of his polish jewish relatives were murdered Captain_New_York Aug 2021 #5

Yelena Mazanik blew up Wilhelm Kube, General-Kommissar of Nazi-occupied Belarus pecosbob Aug 2021 #6

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