On October 15, Mata Hari, the exotic dancer accused of being a German spy, will live-tweet her final hours, as 100 years ago to the day the famous femme fatale refused to cover her eyes when a French firing squad executed her for being a double agent.
To this day historians still argue who Margaretha Geertruida Zelle – aka Mata Hari – was: a seductress who used her sexuality to manipulate her lovers or merely a naive woman in the hands of very powerful men.
Dutch by origin, the future lady vamp spent much time in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) with her alcoholic and abusive husband. There she revealed her artistic name of Mata Hari (literarily translated from Malay as ‘Eye of the day’).
Later, back in Paris, she started performing as an exotic dancer and led a bohemian lifestyle. At that time she was accused by the French of working as a spy for Germany during World War I and arrested. The French presented her as a lethal double agent who used her feminine powers to acquire military secrets from her many lovers. Some historians believe that Mata Hari was betrayed by the Germans.
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