We get a look at Mata Hari's life as a married woman and the trials and tribulations therein. Her husband quickly turned on her and blamed the woman for all ills they ever faced. In her current ...

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Mata Hari is being held in custody by the French government, and she is shortly question by Captain Bouchardon. This leads to flashbacks of Mata's childhood while she explains her life story to ...

Margaretha Zelle, the dancer and famed German spy known by her stage name, “Mata Hari,” died 100 years ago today. She was executed by firing squad in France for espionage on Oct. 15, 1917. Her story ...

PARIS—Her name lives on a century after they stood her in front of a firing squad on Oct. 15, 1917, and watched her die: Mata Hari, treacherous spy, devious liar, a wicked woman to the core. Or was ...

On a cobbled street in Leeuwarden, the quaint little capital of Friesland, stands the birthplace of Mata Hari, the most notorious spy of the First World War. An erotic dancer and high-class courtesan, ...

A century ago exotic dancer and double agent Mata Hari was executed for espionage but she may have been innocent. Impeccably dressed in a long fur-trimmed velvet cloak and a stylish wide-brimmed hat, ...

Yet she was also a tragic wife and mother; and in the eyes of many, a pawn of wartime powerbrokers. Almost a century ago this week, the infamous Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad, ...

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On this day in 1917, Mata Hari was sentenced to death in Paris for allegedly spying on Germany’s behalf during World War I. Was she really a secret agent or just a scapegoat? On 25 July, 1917, the ...