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        Schaft was executed by Dutch Nazi officials on 17 April 1945.[8] Although at the end of the war there was an agreement between the occupier and the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (‘Dutch resistance’) to stop executions, she was shot dead three weeks before the end of the war in the dunes of Overveen, near Bloemendaal.[8] Two men known as Mattheus Schmitz and Maarten Kuiper[9][10] took her to the execution site. Schmitz shot her in the head at close range. However, the bullet only grazed Schaft. She allegedly told her executioners: Ik schiet beter “I shoot better!”, after which Kuiper delivered a final shot to her head. Schaft’s execution was directly ordered by Willy Lages.[8][11]

        Damn

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    The movie would be directed by some right wing moron and she’d be the bad gal for killing innocent Nazis

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    When Freddie Oversteegen was asked how many enemies she had killed, she replied:
    “One should not ask a soldier any of that.”

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    In the videogame Wolfenstein: The New Order there’s mentions from a character that might be loosely based on her, or at least the details are very similar. Look up “Ramona’s diary” if you’d like to read more.

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    Like in American history you hear about Paul Revere riding a damn horse over and over, yet you never learn about Nancy Morgan Hart. I learned who she was from a Bad Cop/Bad Cop song.

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      Interesting stories… But if she held a bunch of soldiers captive in her home with one firearm she likely wouldn’t have been able to shoot one and still hold the others captive, as she would’ve had to reload for the gun to remain a threat.

      It’s more likely that she held them at gunpoint and then others helped detain them so they could be hung.

      If even just one or two soldiers knew they were going to be killed they would’ve likely risked death to rush her or their other captors, giving themselves at least some chance at survival.

      Back then soldiers and people in general usually carried knives too, not just guns.

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        While the accounts are most like exaggerated, so are most things from that time. We still learned about Paul Revere and not the 40 other riders out that night. Or the fact the Revere was captured, while the others with him escaped. And Samuel Prescott was the one who actually finished the ride.

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    In the US, she would be considered a “radical left antifa terrorist” for this. Because Nazis are the “true patriots” according to MAGA.

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    Dunno if anyone’s been paying attention, but there’s a shitload of Nazis all around. Also, women are historically shuttered when it comes to their stories.

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      Groups of people systematically underrepresented in popular media? Nonsense! Here’s a man that still doesn’t have a movie:

      Robert Smalls

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    Might have to age her up a little to allow certain scenes to even be shot, but it’d make a great movie. Then again, if you wrote around it, it’d be brutally effective to show the reality of her seducing those Nazi soldiers and killing them as a literal child.

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      I have zero objections to portraying nazis as pedophiles and having children kill them.