Mata Hari was a Dutch dancer and courtesan whose name has become a synonym for the seductive female spy. She was shot by the French on charges of spying for Germany during World War I.
How old was Mata Hari when she died?Mata Hari was 41 years old when, on October 15, 1917, she was executed by firing squad after a French military court convicted her of spying for Germany during World War I.What happened to Mata Hari’s daughter?In 1898 Mata Hari (then known as Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod) and her husband, Capt. Rudolph MacLeod, had a daughter: Louise Jeanne (“Non”) MacLeod. After the couple separated—Rudolph was allegedly abusive—Margaretha initially had custody of Non. However, Rudolph refused to provide financial assistance, forcing her to leave the child in his care. Destitute and hoping to earn enough money to reunite with her daughter, Margaretha moved to Paris in 1905, eventually becoming a dancer and taking the name Mata Hari. It is not believed that she saw her daughter again before being executed in 1917. According to reports, Non MacLeod died at age 21.Was Mata Hari innocent?On July 25, 1917, a French military court found Mata Hari guilty of spying for Germany during World War I. Three months later she was shot by a firing squad. However, there are doubts about her guilt. The German government publicly exculpated her in 1930, and a French dossier documenting her activities reportedly indicated her innocence. In 2017 France released various documents relating to Mata Hari, and they led many to believe that she had been a scapegoat of French officials looking for someone to blame for the country’s setbacks in the war. In addition, it was speculated that her disregard for societal norms also played a role in her arrest, conviction, and execution.
Mata Hari (malajsky „oko nového svítání“, tj. Slunce), pravým jménem Margaretha Geertruida Zelleová (7. srpna 1876, Leeuwarden – 15. října 1917, Vincennes), byla nizozemská orientální tanečnice, která se v průběhu první světové války stala…
Mata Hari. Born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle on August 7 1876, the only daughter of a Dutch hat-maker, she seemed unlikely to later become the Mata Hari, the most infamous double agent in spy history.
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