So you're walking along the street and see a young girl on a bicycle approaching you. You don't think much about it until she gets near you, stares you in the eye and says "Die fascist pig," and puts a bullet into you. This is what three teenage girls did for almost five years in the Netherlands during World War II. They also planted explosives, hid Jews and distributed anti-Nazi newspapers among other things.
How they got away with it for so long, considering the death toll of Resistance members, was amazing. And you would think they would be highly respected for it. Yet some of the men who took over the Dutch Resistance near the end of the war didn't think much of them. Perhaps that is why their story took so long to be told.
One died young, two lived into their 90s. There are now streets named after them and monuments to them in the Netherlands.
You go, girls!
How they got away with it for so long, considering the death toll of Resistance members, was amazing. And you would think they would be highly respected for it. Yet some of the men who took over the Dutch Resistance near the end of the war didn't think much of them. Perhaps that is why their story took so long to be told.
One died young, two lived into their 90s. There are now streets named after them and monuments to them in the Netherlands.
You go, girls!
