@historyundressed: Did you know that as a teenager growing up in the Netherlands, Audrey Hepburn bravely carried messages for the Dutch resistance during the Nazi occupation? 💌💌💖 Though her family was privileged, the Nazis diverted food and resources away from the Netherlands, and her family went hungry. In the spring of 1944, Hepburn volunteered as an assistant to a doctor – Hendrik Visser 't Hooft – who was a member of the resistance. On September 17th 1944, Nazi tanks rolled in front of Audrey’s family home. Hepburn and parents hid in the cellar while the battle raged for nine days. When Allied airmen heading for Germany had to make an emergency landing in the Netherlands, Visser 't Hooft sent Hepburn to the forest to meet a British paratrooper with code words and a secret message hidden in her sock. She made the meeting, but on the way out of the forest, she saw Dutch police approaching. She bent down to pick wildflowers, then flirtatiously presented them to the police. They were charmed and didn't interrogate her further. After this, she often carried messages for the resistance. "She believed very much that there is a struggle between good and evil and you have to take sides.” -Luca Dotti, Audrey Hepburn’s son // #audreyhepburn #oldhollywood #vintagefashion #quotes #fyp

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