[PapaNew]

Long time ago I heard the story that she pulled open her outer garment to show her naked body just before being shot. (Worth a try? Might have worked.)

[JoeProBono]

Mata Hari's execution, October 15, 1917

[Veto!]

...would rather have as her lover a poor officer than a rich banker,"

Ah, the cost of boy-toys has always been high…too high, some might say.

[tumblindice]

“she was a Dutch exotic dancer”

She learned Pole dancing in Krakow.

[skeeter]

Its probably easy to be stoic in your final moments when your brain is wracked by Syphilis.

[familyop]

There was once a 600+ lb. sow named Gertude in the Ozarks.

[familyop]

...Gertrude, even.

[colorado tanker]

Her story was certainly a strange one. Most historians seem to think she was not a spy and I tend to agree. Almost a century later something surely would have turned up in some archive or some person's papers had she been one.

I almost wonder if she was shot to keep secret the full list of French officers she had slept with.

[JT Hatter]

The French shoot a woman.

Quelle domage.

[Bigg Red]

Joel Landau needs to learn to proofread.