Death Hannie Schaft



gravestone school photo on it; eerebegraafplaats bloemendaal (nl)


she arrested @ military checkpoint in haarlem on 21 march 1945, while distributing illegal communist newspaper de waarheid. after interrogation, torture, , solitary confinement, schaft identified roots of red hair.


schaft assassinated dutch nazi officials on april 17, 1945. although @ end of war there agreement between occupier , binnenlandse strijdkrachten (nl) stop executions, shot dead 3 weeks before end of war in dunes of bloemendaal. 2 men took there , 1 shot @ close range, wounding her. supposedly said executioners: shoot better , after other man delivered final shot.


on november 27, 1945, schaft reburied in state funeral. queen whilhelmina called schaft symbol of resistance. however, when communism fell out of favor in netherlands, commemorations schaft banned.








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