Freddie Oversteegen, Dutch Resistance Fighter Who Killed Nazis Through Seduction, Dies At 92

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4. I had a friend with a story like hers.

He was French, but of Dutch ancestry (family name Looren). He was as blond and Aryan-looking as he could possibly be, but spoke nothing but French. I only met him when he was about 50. A non-smoker, he worked in an office later in life where everyone else smoked, and he died of lung cancer at 72.

But (I found this out from friends, as he rarely talked about it) as he looked like a sweet young Aryan teenager, the Nazi occupiers of France from 1940-44 never gave him a second thought. They never found out that he was one of the people shooting machine guns at Nazi transports from hidden positions in the woods all over rural France. A generous spirit and free thinker, he never let his animosity toward Germany influence his attitude toward my German wife, whom he adored. But due to what he had lived through during the occupation, he begged my understanding that he refused to ever set foot in Germany as long as he lived. Though he traveled the world (opened his own travel agency later on in life), he never did go to Germany.