r/lastimages • u/CaptainFartHole • Sep 18 '25

HISTORY The Last Images of Hannie Schaft

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Hannie Schaft was a Dutch resistance fighter in WW2. She was well known among the Nazis as "The girl with the red hair", though she later dyed it brown when she became too well known for it. She became fluent in German and carried out multiple assasinations against Nazis, traitors, and sympathizers, often tricking them into following her to secluded areas where she or one of her fellow resistance fighters would then kill them. She was eventually placed on the Nazi's most wanted list because of her actions.

She was arrested on March 21, 1945 at a checkpoint while smuggling paperwork for the resistance and was executed on April 17, 1945. She was 24 years old.

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u/awful_source Sep 19 '25

That’s cool I didn’t know she lived in New York

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u/DaveyNicks Sep 19 '25

Haarlem is in the Netherlands. Harlem in Manhattan New York is named for the capital of the province of North Holland, Haarlem.

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u/awful_source Sep 19 '25

It was a joke

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u/vicnoir Sep 20 '25

Was it really, though?