I read once that, during the war, Ms Hepburn would cycle across enemy lines with secret messages. She'd flirt with the Germans to let her pass and return. Apparently she did it often, and she knew she'd be executed had the Germans twigged to what she was doing. She was fifteen at the time. What bravery.

I always felt she not just a beautiful puppet. I was always fascinated by her. I could not explain why. Now I know why.

Perhaps Audrey didn't talk, because she also had a war trauma. They rarely want to talk, certainly when they have survivors guilt when already Audrey went above and beyond what could be expected as a girl, showing very high morals from a young age. To go against your parent's believes is a very tough thing. My respect to Audrey and to the writer for uncovering all this.

The interviewer is impeccable. It sounds like a conversation of two friends catching up

Everyone, no matter race, can bear struggle. It is very important to not let it over take you. Audrey is the perfect example of using it as fuel for the rest of your life. Each child she helped was one more mission in the Resistance.

"Dutch Girl" is an excellent biography. I give it 5 stars and recommend it to anyone who is interested not just in Audrey Hepburn---- but the history of WWII. This young girl survived five years in occupied Holland, culminating in the massive and violent Battle of Arnhem. She was living in the town with her mother when the battle began, and experienced the terror and the violent death and destruction. She witnessed the Jews of Arnhem being rounded up and taken away to the death camps. She also witnessed the deaths and executions of many ordinary Dutch people in the town by the Nazis. Finally, she suffered extreme hunger and starvation in the final months of the war. She was an extraordinary person and this book really gives you the full story.

I met a gentleman who was a young boy in the Netherlands during the war and that the German soldiers would share their rations with the children and treated them with compassion, then he added, unless you were Jewish.

Ms Hepburn has always been an icon of generosity, commitment,courage,elegance,sensibility and beauty.I love her movies as much as her deeds.

This is a good interview, the right questions. I got another perspective of Audrey, a positive one. Thank you.

I was shocked!,i am english but live in holland,I never knew she was dutch,I just found a 1950,picture of her practising ballet,Wow,she was drop dead gorgeous!,in the 1950 pic.She has the look,of a typical dutch beauty,I met a girl 20 years ago in holland when i first came to netherlands,and she looked like that.But you learn something new every day.I almost cannot believe it.!

Who knows how many jewish people were saved by Audrey by dancing and rasing money to feed them?! Because is was really difficult to feed people in hiding for different reasons. Hearing the story also gives me goosebumps. My grandfather was a vegetable wholesaler in Velp. Two years ago i first heared the story of a jewish woman who used to come to him for food after dark. It was after the war that he found out that she was hiding on the other side of the street. She survived where so many didn't.

I was born in the Netherlands during the war. I grew up there and was fully aware of Audrey's background, her work during the war, etc since the fifties. Nothing new here.

Mr. Matzen should voice for the audiobook version of the book. What a great insight and way to tell the story. Can't wait to read

It's not entirely true that Audrey never talked about the war in public. She didn't talk about her parents' Nazi connection, true, but she DID mention the hardships, the hunger, and working for the resistance in many interviews. And in her screen test for Roman Holiday, just after she sits down, and with the camera rolling, the interviewer says, "Tell us about the war." The combination of sweetness and vulnerability in her face as she answers tells you all you need to know about why she became a star that we'll never forget. Here it is: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gtVhh86b3JPTpKc.html&ab_channel=HansvandenBerg

She was a real human being!❤️

Thank you for this beautiful summary of this remarkable heroic woman.

Thank you for sharing such an incredible story

Jennifer Love Hewitt portrayed the actress in the movie The Audrey Hepburn Story. I think she did wonderfully.

The perfect mix of Brains, Bravery and Incredible Beauty. All combined to make her the hard working Star and Humanitarian that she was. Rest In Peace Sweet Princess.❤

This story is amazing of Audrey Hepburn and this more accurate version of Audrey's life.

exceptional researcher

Lovely story. Thank you for all your work and research.

Humaneness is a kind of love. Beautiful but difficult biography Mrs Audrey Hepburn Beautiful person

I read the book. It was fabulous.

Even if her parents were Nazi sympathisers, she was not. A brave and lovely woman with humanity and compassion. So sad that she is no longer with us.

fascinating interview. many thanks for posting.

Excellent interview - I've put a hold on my library's copy of this book as I'm a fan of Hepburn and have been aware of some of her war history for some time, although not sure where from. At the end, you mentioned Barry Paris. I haven't read his biography of Audrey's but I have read and own his biography of Louise Brooks which I found the most moving biography I've had read - up to that point. You could tell he really cared about his subject - yet was very open about all aspects of Louise's personality.

Audrey Hepburn also rejected the film role to play Kate ter Horst in the movie "A bridge too far", played by Liv Ullmann.

Such a riveting interview. Thank you Mr. Matzen, for your important and tireless efforts to bring Ms Hepburn’s vital story to the public. Fascism is as current of a horror worldwide, as it has ever been. War, the heroes, villains and victims are not a vague shadow of the past but real and urgent, now. Your telling Audrey’s childhood story...her bravery, empathy and suffering, may very well have far reaching effects for the spiritual evolution of humanity. That is my hope. I can not wait to read the accounts of her experience during one of the darkest points of mankind’s history, knowing that her light helped to illuminate a way out.

A truly fenominal woman! Bless her beautiful soul.

I have his outstanding book about James Stewart's superlative service in the 8th Air Force during WWII. I cannot recommend it strongly enough. I'll be getting his book about Miss Hepburn shortly. Cannot wait to read this previously unknown part of history. She must have had enormous courage.

THIS GREATLY HELPS TO UNDERSTAND HER ALTRUISM AND COURAGE. VICTOR FRANKL HAS MUCH TO SAY ABOUT "SELF-CONSTITUTION" THROUGH TRUTH AND ETHICS, MORALITY.

So malnourished during the Nazi occupation of Holland that her tween-teenaged body suffered and the rigors of Ballet were just too much for her. However, ballet's loss was the movie industries gain.

This is a biography, just waiting to be a movie, presenting many variables and emotions.

this book needs to be made into a movie

A girl whose parents were NSB members during the war Who, like many NSB members, flee to America after the war That is why she is not known at all in the Netherlands

A great interview. Thank you and God bless.

This would be a great movie!

Audrey Hepburn would come across as this fragile anemic girl, but she was tougher than Tungsten Steel, who gives a damn who her parents were political wise, The real Audrey Hepburn was Sister Luke in the "Nun's Story"

I admire her so much she is a wonderful icon on the world 🥰❤️

I don't think food killed her- smoking is a more likely culprit.

So judging someone on the sins of their parents is wrong for celebrities but anyone else is cancelled..🤔

Once a ballerina, always a ballerina.

This seems to be a man who has been very dedicated to telling Audrey s

Can’t wait to read it!

Excellent interview.

just finished on Audible, excellent book

I didn't know about her Nazi sympathiser mother and Nazi agent father! Poor, poor woman! She gave back for their sins hundred fold.

Tough love. I all my adult life so far I've carried this unknown guilt from my mother not ever understanding why I asked her so many times.....now I understand now her rejection was for my protection. I get it now.

British is not the same as English! One can become British by applying for British citizenship but one has to be born in the UK to be English. You should know that.

Holland had it tough during WW 2 ! This caused a lot of people stress and that stress can cause sickness ‼️ mIt was a great day when the Canadians came to Liberate us

Can't blame anyone for the sins of the parents .

Oh, yes of course Audrey Hepburn was Dutch through the divorce of her parents, her British father and her Dutch mother. She also grew up in Arnheim were her grandparents lived. Her Dutch grandfather had even been one a Mayor of Armheim. It is the same place Rayan had described in A BRIDGE TO FAR. After the War she had rejected the role of the Children´s Nurse in the movie because the role itself felt to traumatic to her. I got my information about what the author told mostly from German magazins and Newspapers.

Audrey...you legend.

I can see that she was an actual "Earth Angel" 😇

I am reading this book right now.

The Image of Audrey changes a lot.

I neeeeed this book!

there is something to be said for this .. what right does an adult have imposing war which will make children suffer. Imagine waking up in the morning and being bombarded or having foreign soldiers in uniform marauding through your streets.

Interesting, but Audrey did talk about WW2. Sad, complex and elusive times of course on all sides. People could find themselves on the wrong side in retroperspective. The winner wasn't yet decided. Moreover, subscription meant that many young boys found themselves in a situation they never wanted. From my Dutch side (mum) grandmother, I've often heard the story that German soldiers were actually very respectful, kind and sharing, certainly at the beginning of the occupation of The Netherlands. Grandmum (Dutch) was mandated to house a few regular wehrmacht soldiers since she had a large villa, and they had quite some talks. She told that they didn't like what they were doing, but they had to because of Hitler, the boys said. There was no choice to be had. Unfortunately, antisemitism was a general norm at the time everywhere throughout Europe and Russia. Jews were just diminitively tolerated (but usually distrusted) in Amsterdam for example. I remember a friend of my grandmum (both Dutch) talking about it since her friend lived there during the times. From my paternal German side I've heard some stories too, although usually deeply ashamed. Most Germans at the time after WW2 wouldn't talk. From my position, my generation, I understand that most boys had no choice. Active followers of the regime is a different story of course; there were plenty of them as well. Propaganda is extremely effective (still is), and antisemitism was the general norm before WW2. The regime sadly made it the highest and most devastating agenda ever in history.... :( Now, if Audrey's father was an agent, then her family must have moved to the low countries for his covert work, obviously; of course Audrey would have been told for another reason. There would have been no other reason to move, since the family was well good financially in England. Sad, complex and elusive times... Must have been especially hard for Audrey...

I had no idea Audrey Hepburn was European. I had always read about the conditions in Holland during WW II with Anne Frank and Corrie Ten Boom. I had always assumed Hepburn was originally American.

Wow... Beautiful

Obviously she is half British half Dutch.

Hepburn was truly a remarkable woman! One of my favorite people.

This is a good book.

God bless you Audrey 🙏❤🙌 !

great.

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Dear Audrey...❤

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The greatest generation doesn't need attention or kudos. They're not from the social media generation. They just get to work and do what needs to be done. I think she didn't want or need the attention of talking about it.

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Good on ya Audrey ,,, cheers

Kleine Richtigstellung des Angemerkten: Die Richtung der Lautverschiebung ist andersherum, vom Niederdeutschen oder Niederfränischen zum Mittel- und Oberdeutschen

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Audrey Hepburn was a British citizen she was not Dutch.

Probably kept her safe w/mom doing her thing. There is always a back story. Ya never know...

God bless you because yes...😊

Why did the guest not use the name ANN FRANK , Instead he said Uhaane Fruenc . Does he have a speech impediment .

The Wookie Chewbacca.Rebals preare for the fight .Ben with the lightsaber you for the help and lets go and money for the right thing for CPMC to Paramedics and your welcome to EMT and I am Hospital type and how nice 👍 teamwork 😮🎉❤.

Ein sehr interessantes Video mit vielen aufschlussreichen Informationen. Allerdings war die Dialektkarte doch arg vereinfacht. Kólsch ist z. B. ein Unterdialekt des Rheinfränkischen oder auch Ripuarischen. Interessant ist dabei, dass es ein Dialektkontinuum gibt bis ins Niederländische und die flämischen Dialekte. Niederländisch zählt man dabei zum Niederfränkischen, das Fränkich in dem Namen steckt ist kein Zufall. Ein anderes Dialektkontinuum führt ins Niederdeutsche, Platt oder auch Niedersächsische, das auch im Osten der Niederlande gesprochen wird. Friesisch ist in den Niederlanden als Westfriesisch noch präsent, in Deutschland aber fast ausgestorben. Mir fehlte es einwenig an diesen und anderen Differenzierungen. über die des oberdeutschen Sprachraums weiss ich weniger Bescheid. Da lasse ich mich gerne noch genauer aufklären.

The low lands is not more countries, it is just the Netherlands.

My hero

In 2015 I gave a talk at the National Portrait Gallery in London which pre-empts these revelations and also goes much deeper. The talk was on Audrey Hepburn and the talk alleged her parents were members of Britain`s notorious National Union of Fascists. The mother was a Dutch Jewish baroness and the father was a Czech Irish con man who went to school in Linz Austria with Hitler. There is speculation during the war that Hepburn`s parents were collaborators and turned in many Jewish families; also that they hosted Nazis at their parties; and that their own daughter was abused. The revelations were so distasteful to some (Holocaust Deniers) I was vilified before NPG management and was never asked back to do another talk. The ostensible reason was (and it is on the Southwark Meetup Website) that I failed to acknowledge `Sabrina` as the LATIN name for `Severn`. If you want to access the talk, have a look at Academia.edu (Audrey Hepburn/Sandra Shevey) So effectivley you could call her `Hitler`s goddaughter`. WHat an ugly thought?!

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I'd like the title if she wasn't born in Brussels. I'd also like it if it wasn't a source of shame for her, and he's trying to make a buck off a dead lady.

Natalie Portman the first.

Oh No,loud unnecessary intrusive music spoiling a fine video!

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Such light hearted banter for describing the Holocaust. I turned it off.

Thank you so much for sharing with me an infamous fragment of the Hitler's Nazi horrendous regimen. It must be an odyssey to recount. The crimes and cruelties committed against my sons and daughters, my fathers and mothers, my brothers and sisters hurt me deeply, regardless their ethnicity and nationality. In Isaiah 2: 4, Jehovah God, the Creator and Source of life, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, promises: "He will be judge among the nations and will settle matters in relation to many peoples. They will turn their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. The nations will no longer raise their swords against each other and learn no more to wage war." My immediate neighbors are Jews and I am a Jehovah's Witness. Their hearts are superior than pure gold by far. They are extremely kind. The gentleman takes care of my trash can every Wednesday without my asking him to do so. They are lovely human beings, and they are not in need of the smallest improvement.

Her mother did not sympathize with the Nazis as far as I know.

Between 1933 and 1939, before the war started a lot of people around the world were impressed with Hitler, prime ministers, kings and ordinary people too, there was no shame to have about that.

Nothing is new this guy is telling cause much of her; Audrey life available on YT. This guy simply try to flog his book.

The crimes and cruelties committed against my sons and daughters, my fathers and mothers, my brothers and sisters hurt me deeply, regardless their ethnicity and nationality. In Isaiah 2: 4, Jehovah God, the Creator and Source of life, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, promises: "He will be judge among the nations and will settle matters in relation to many peoples. They will turn their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. The nations will no longer raise their swords against each other and learn no more to wage war." My immediate neighbors are Jews and I am a Jehovah's Witness. Their hearts are superior than pure gold by far. They are extremely kind. The gentleman takes care of my trash can every Wednesday without my asking him to do so. They are lovely human beings, and they are not in need of the smallest improvement.