Monday, March 26, 2018

pencil sketch of a Nazi by Dr K Prabhakar Rao


HANNIE. SCHAFT.. DUTCH COMMUNIST, ANTI NAZI ACTIVIST. WW II

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Dr K Prabhakar Rao said...

She was a Dutch communist anti Nazi resistance fighter during WW II.
Gravestone with her school photo on it; Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal (nl)
She was eventually arrested at a military checkpoint in Haarlem on 21 March 1945, while distributing the illegal communist newspaper de Waarheid. After much interrogation, torture, and solitary confinement, Schaft was identified by the roots of her red hair.

Schaft was assassinated by Dutch Nazi officials on April 17, 1945.[5] Although at the end of the war there was an agreement between the occupier and the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (nl) to stop executions, she was shot dead three weeks before the end of the war in the dunes of Bloemendaal. Two men took her there and one shot her at close range, only wounding her. She supposedly said to her executioners: "I shoot better than you", after which the other man delivered the final shot.

On November 27, 1945, Schaft was reburied in a state funeral. Queen Whilhelmina called Schaft "the symbol of the Resistance.However, when communism fell out of favor in the Netherlands, commemorations for Schaft were banned.