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From seduction to sabotage — every mission was a death sentence

Hannie Schaft didn’t just hide and run — she hunted.
Working alongside Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, she gathered intelligence, stole Nazi ID papers, and helped Jewish children disappear into safe houses. Railways were bombed. Messages were smuggled.
Fluent in German, Hannie and the sisters lured high-ranking Nazi officers into forests — and never let them return. Collaborators fell. Informants were silenced. A baker who betrayed families. A hairdresser tied to Nazi intelligence. A police officer named Willem Zirkzee.
Her legend spread across occupied Netherlands.
The “Girl with the Red Hair” became one of the Reich’s most-wanted.
Even Adolf Hitler ordered her capture.
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00:00Honey and the Ovestecher sisters gathered vital information, provided Jewish children
00:05with safe houses, stole identification papers, and bombed railways. Honey could speak fluent
00:11German, and with Truss and Freddy she became involved with German soldiers. They would seduce
00:16high-ranking Nazi officers, lure them into the woods, and kill them. Honey was also involved
00:22in killing or wounding a baker who was known for betraying people, a hairdresser who worked for
00:26the Nazi's intelligence agency, and another Nazi police officer named Willem Zergze.
00:31Soon she became famous as the girl with the red hair, and was placed on the Nazi's most
00:36wanted list. Adolf Hitler had personally ordered her capture.
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