Resistance Movements
Ordinary people who fought tyranny from the shadows
Freddie and Truus Oversteegen: The Teenage Sisters Who Seduced and Killed Nazis
Two Dutch teenage sisters joined the resistance at ages 14 and 16, learned to shoot, and lured Nazi officers into the woods on the promise of a romantic walk — then shot them.
The Comet Line: The Escape Network That Ran on the Courage of Belgian Women
A 24-year-old Belgian nurse created an escape line that smuggled over 800 Allied airmen from occupied Belgium across France and over the Pyrenees to Spain — much of it run by women.
The Rosenstrasse Protest: When German Wives Defeated the Gestapo
In 1943, non-Jewish German women staged a week-long street protest in Berlin demanding the release of their Jewish husbands from a deportation center — and won.
Jean Moulin: The Prefect Who United the French Resistance
A French civil servant who cut his own throat rather than sign a Nazi document later parachuted back into France to unite the fractious resistance movements into one force — and was betrayed.