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TIL about Freddie and Truus Oversteegen, THE TEENAGE GIRLS WHO SEDUCED AND KILLED NAZIS. They looked so young that no one suspected them as spies working against the Nazis. They would distract the Nazis by pretending to seduce them, and later would lure them off and do the killing themselves.

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