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DutchGirlScoutsSabotaged German OccupationTroopsNEW YORK (AP)—During the German occupation of The Netherlands, Girl Guides were considered by the Germans to be trained spies, Mrs. Van den Bosch-Jongh, president of the Girl Guides of Holland has said. Guides went underground and worked with the resistancethroughout- the war,” she told the fifth annual meeting of the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York.The Girl Guides are the Dutch equivalent of America’s Girl Scouts.While working with the resistance movement, the guides kept records of ship movements, distributed underground newspapers and carried messages,” she said, adding that the Germans confiscated dll Girl Guide equipment and uniforms and destroyed all files and records. Mrs. Bosch-Jongh, who recently was decorated •by Queen Wilhclmina for her workwith the underground, will attend a Girl Scout conference to be held *ln Cuba.
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Southern Germany Stars and Stripes
Altdorf, Bavaria, DE
Wed, Feb 13, 1946
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