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[-] [email protected] 2 points 58 minutes ago

I knew I liked her.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago

Wasn't there a lovely Dutch lady who seduced Nazis into the woods, where she promptly killed them and distributed their equipment to resistance forces? She sounds fun

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

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

When she was about to be executed she said:

'I shoot better than that'

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

From Wikipedia:

After her uncle's death, Hepburn, Ella, and Miesje left Arnhem to live with her grandfather, Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra, in nearby Velp.[11] Around that time Hepburn gave silent dance performances that reportedly raised money for the Dutch resistance effort.[33] It was long believed that she participated in the Dutch resistance itself,[11] but in 2016 the Airborne Museum 'Hartenstein' reported that after extensive research it had not found any evidence of such activities.[34] A 2019 book by Robert Matzen provided evidence, based on Hepburn's personal statements, that she had supported the resistance by giving "underground concerts" to raise money, delivering the underground newspaper, and taking messages and food to downed Allied flyers hiding in the woodlands north of Velp.[35] She also volunteered at a hospital that was the center of resistance activities in Velp,[35] and, according to Hepburn, her family temporarily hid a British paratrooper in their home during the Battle of Arnhem.[36][37] Matzen also claims that Hepburn carried messages for the Dutch Resistance, including to downed British paratroopers.[38]

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

They've used CG to bring Hepburn back to life for a fucking commercial, why haven’t we gotten her war stories as a movie yet?

[-] [email protected] 37 points 11 hours ago

She also suffered from severe malnutrition as a child, which is why she looked so waifish.

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