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Part Three: The Dutch Resistance: The Teens Who Seduced and Killed Nazis

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Margaret talks with Caitlin Durante about Truus and Freddie Oversteegan and Hannie Schaft and their rebellion that left Nazi bodies around the Netherlands

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