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[–] saimen@feddit.org 5 points 6 hours ago

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]

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