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

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Wiki, Hannie Schaft (Sept. 16, 1920- April 17, 1945) (Final)..She was eventually arrested at a military checkpoint in Haarlem on 21 March 1945, while distributing the illegal communist newspaper de Waarheid, which was a cover story. She was transporting secret documentation for the Resistance. She worked closely with Anna A.C. Wijnhoff. After much interrogation, torture, and solitary confinement, Schaft was identified by the roots of her red hair by her former colleague Anna Wijnhoff.
Schaft was assassinated by Dutch Nazi officials on April 17, 1945. Although at the end of the war there was an agreement between the occupier and the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (nl) to stop executions, she was shot dead three weeks before the end of the war in the dunes of Bloemendaal. Two men took her there and one shot her at close range, only wounding her. She supposedly said to her executioners: "I shoot better than you", after which the other man delivered the final shot. On November 27, 1945, Schaft was reburied in a state funeral. Queen Whilhelmina called Schaft "the symbol of the Resistance."
Legacy, After the war, in these dunes the remains of 422 members of the resistance were found, 421 men and one woman, Hannie Schaft. She was reburied at the honorary cemetery Erebegraafplaats Bloemendaal in the dunes in Overveen in the presence of Princess Juliana and her husband Prince Bernard. Later, as queen, Juliana unveiled a bronze commemorative statue in the Kenau Park in nearby Haarlem, her birthplace. Hannie Schaft also received the 'Wilhelmina resistance cross' and a US decoration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannie_Schaft

Netherland Dunes of Bloemendaal. After the war, the remains of 421 men & one woman, Hannie Schaft, members of the Dutch Resistance were found here. Schaft was reburied at the honorary cemetery in the dunes in Overveer in Nov. 1945.