Did You Know Audrey Hepburn Was Part Of The Resistance To Fight The Nazis?!
In a new book, it’s revealed that Audrey Hepburn, who was heartbroken by the execution of her uncle by the Nazis, secretly worked for the Resistance in World War II to defeat them.
Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II shows Audrey as a preteen ballerina in England when the war broke out in 1939. Her mother, a baroness, took her home to Holland hoping the Netherlands would stay neutral. But the country was soon occupied by the Third Reich. Then came the dramatic execution of her uncle, Count Otto van Limburg Stirum.
The book’s author, Robert Matzen, discovered a 188-page diary Otto wrote during the four months he was imprisoned before his death. Audrey’s younger son, Luca, wrote the forward:
“When my mother talked about herself and what life taught her, Hollywood was the missing guest,” he wrote. “Instead of naming famed Beverly Hills locations, she gave us obscure and sometimes unpronounceable Dutch ones. Red-carpet recollections were replaced by Second World War episodes that she was able to transform into children’s tales.”
Robert says the book might solve hidden mysteries about the star’s life: “I now understand why the words Good and Evil, and Love and Mercy were so fundamental in her own narrative. Why she was open about certain facts and why she kept so many others in a secluded area of her being.”
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