Hollywood legend Audrey Hepburn was a WWII resistance spy

New York Post, by Reed Tucker — April 9, 2019

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She was one of Hollywood’s most celebrated actresses. But Audrey Hepburn had a role that few knew about: spy.

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The maddeningly private actress, who died in 1993, had dropped hints about her work with the Dutch Resistance during World War II, and now a new book puts the whole story together, providing an in-depth look at her life during the conflict.

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The biggest surprise to many will be Hepburn’s work with the Dutch Resistance against Nazi occupation. She certainly seemed like an unlikely hero.

For starters, she was just 10 years old when World War II broke out. For another, her parents were infamously pro-fascist — though the realities of Nazi occupation would ultimately change her mother’s mind.

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In the summer of 1944, Hepburn began volunteering for Dr. Hendrik Visser ’t Hooft, a handsome 39-year-old physician and former Olympian. It was here her ties to the underground Resistance were formed. Visser ’t Hooft was an anti-German leader, and the hospital where he worked was the center of the Resistance in the area, with doctors helping to forge identity documents to assist those in hiding.

One of Hepburn’s contributions was dance. She began performing at illegal, by-invitation-only nighttime events designed to raise money for the Resistance. These nights were called “zwarte avonden,” or “black evenings,” because the hosts were forced to black out the windows so as to not be discovered by the enemy.

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