Increasingly, though, Mata Hari — the stage name adopted by Margaretha Zelle — is also being reinterpreted as a victim of a time when a sexually liberated woman with artistic ambitions faced ...

Dancer, temptress, spy - Margareta Zelle, aka Mata Hari, goes behind the scenes as a spy during World War I. Desperate to make ends meet, Margareta works with the German army in a twisted game of ...

Mata Hari was just 41 when she faced a firing squad on October 15, 1917, accused of spying for Germany during World War I. (AFP/File) By 1914, however, her popularity was waning.

This video from the International Spy Museum shares some insights into the life of exotic dancer Mata Hari, who was executed a century ago during World War I by a French firing squad for allegedly ...

A century ago on Sunday, the exotic dancer Mata Hari, real name Margaretha Zelle, was executed by a French firing squad, condemned as a sultry Dutch double agent who supposedly caused the deaths ...

But in 1903 aged 27, she fled after a nasty divorce to Paris, where, penniless, she became a striptease dancer, taking the name "Mata Hari", Indonesian for "Eye of the Day".

A rare collection of letters, pictures and other personal objects from Dutch exotic dancer and convicted spy Margaretha Zelle, also known as Mata Hari, are going up for auction. Julia de Jong ...

It is 100 years since Mata Hari, born Marghareta Zelle in Leeuwarden in 1876, was executed in France. The collection – many letters, furniture, a wedding menu, photos and baby books of her children, ...

LEEUWARDEN, Netherlands (AP) – A century ago on Sunday, an exotic dancer named Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad, condemned as a sultry Dutch double agent who supposedly caused … ...