Summary of Tim Brady's Three Ordinary Girls

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Truus Oversteegen, born in 1923, was a witness to the worldwide struggles of the Great Depression. She remembered the miseries and struggles of those times as if they were still happening outside her window in Haarlem.
#2 Trijntje Oversteegen, the mother of Truus and Freddie, was a leftist who raised her daughters with leftist values. When the Great Depression hit, their economic situation worsened. They were eventually cut off from the government food stamps and stipend for rent.
#3 Truus was a live-in servant, but things didn’t work out as planned. She spent her very first night in the attic thinking of Freddie and Robbie at home, and was awakened by an unsympathetic German maid named Kathe. She left the house the next morning.
#4 The family was not sheltered from the political upheavals of Europe in the 1930s. The girls learned early on to keep quiet about the activities their mother was involved in, as talking was dangerous. They knew what the Nazis were and what they were capable of.

Sujets

• Women
• Politique

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 23 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669358671
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Tim Brady's Three Ordinary Girls
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Truus Oversteegen, born in 1923, was a witness to the worldwide struggles of the Great Depression. She remembered the miseries and struggles of those times as if they were still happening outside her window in Haarlem.

#2

Trijntje Oversteegen, the mother of Truus and Freddie, was a leftist who raised her daughters with leftist values. When the Great Depression hit, their economic situation worsened. They were eventually cut off from the government food stamps and stipend for rent.

#3

Truus was a live-in servant, but things didn’t work out as planned. She spent her very first night in the attic thinking of Freddie and Robbie at home, and was awakened by an unsympathetic German maid named Kathe. She left the house the next morning.

#4

The family was not sheltered from the political upheavals of Europe in the 1930s. The girls learned early on to keep quiet about the activities their mother was involved in, as talking was dangerous. They knew what the Nazis were and what they were capable of.

#5

The Dutch government, hoping to remain neutral, ordered a mobilization of its armed forces just days before Germany invaded Poland. The Dutch military was unprepared to defend itself against the German war machine.

#6

The Oversteegen family in Haarlem went on with their lives, as the war drums were approaching. One day, Trijntje asked Truus and Freddie to pick up a boy and girl from another safe house in Haarlem and bring them back to their apartment for an overnight stay.

#7

The Oversteegen family, along with everyone else in the neighborhood, woke up to the sound of planes overhead on May 10, 1940. The Dutch were under attack by the Germans. The Germans were invading the Kingdom of the Netherlands on multiple fronts.

#8

The Dutch were forced to flee their country when Germany invaded it in May 1940. The queen and the Dutch government fled to England, and the rest of the government followed them two days later. The Dutch continued to fight even after the government left The Hague, but they were already squeezed into Fortress Holland, centered around the large cities in the western part of the nation.

#9

The first act of the new regime in the Netherlands was to free all of the NSB members who had been jailed by the supplanted administration. These were the same right-wing thugs who had been imprisoned by the Dutch government prior to the invasion for their collaborations with the Germans.

#10

The German Wehrmacht made its grand entrance into Amsterdam on May 10, complete with two divisions of Panzer tanks, endless motorcycles, trucks, and halftracks. The German officer corps and fascist Dutch supporters immediately began taking up all the best rooms.