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The story of a dream come true behind the identity of a mighty spy One of the most famous spies of the First World War is Mother Harry. He was executed by a firing squad for spying for France against Germany a hundred years ago today, in 1917. Listing the most terrifying spies in the history of the world, his name comes first. What a wonderful way to screw people over. Was Mother Harry really such a terrible person? Did the result of the First World War change because of his espionage? Let's try to find out what Mother Harry did, what her spy life was like, what this man dreamed of, why she died in a cruel trial.

Margareta was born in Girtruida district on August 6, 18. His father was a hat seller, but he was accustomed to flashy clothes and arrogant moves. Although of Frisian and North Germanic blood, Margaret's black hair, brown eyes, and olive-colored complexion were mistaken for semi-Indian or semi-Indonesian. Margareta took her father's business path at the age of thirteen. With that came the separation of parents. Margaret's father then began to show his temper and moved away from his daughter. His mother died before he was fifteen. At that age, Margareta, a shy but lively young woman five feet nine inches tall, began to realize little by little that she was becoming very attractive and lustful to men. Even the headmaster of her school fell in love with her. When he was eighteen, he was sent to live with relatives in The Hague.

Going there, his mind was not fixed. Margareta was becoming restless with unaccustomedness. At that time he sat down and did one thing. Replies to an ad in a local newspaper. And that was an 'I want a bride' ad that was given by the bride herself. "Captain of the Indian Army, on vacation in Holland, looking for a bride of your choice" was the language of the advertisement. Margareta met that Captain Rudolf McLeod, and three months later they were married. For the next seven years they were in the then Dutch East Indies, in what is now Indonesia. Marital life became unbearable for Margareta. Her two children were poisoned by a local servant, and her eldest son died. And McLeod's job was to deal violently with Margaret on a daily basis. In 1902 he was finally forced to break up, having already returned to Holland. McLeod forcibly kept their little girl to himself. Margareta was 26 at the time and moved to Paris. Her new life began as a model for artists. Couldn't last long, went back to Holland. There he met Henri du Marguerite, a French diplomat. Margareta returned to Paris with him, as his mistress. This is the beginning of the famous period of his life as a dancer. Marguerite introduced him to various palaces in Paris as a sacred priest from a temple on the banks of the Ganges, whose medium of worship is dance. Margareta brought in her dance the poses and charming coins seen in Indonesia. Added a short-lived dance by unveiling the veil, which looked like a ritual of worship. Margareta became very popular. This time she took a new name - Mata Hari. In the local language of Indonesia which means ‘light of dawn’. From 1905 until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Mother Harry enjoyed the status of a great celebrity. In Madrid, Milan, Monte Carlo and Paris he was absolutely revered. Mother Harry would sometimes dance in Sicilian theaters or in the palaces of the aristocracy. Her name was then pronounced from house to house, as she was the first and proverbial short-lived dance artist in Europe, most importantly, the most adored name of many famous men of that era was Mata Hari. From French diplomats to German princes, Mother Harry's dream was alive. Her true friends were very few, and for these eleven years Marguerite was the closest to Mother Harry. At the root of her fascination was her charming and fancy dance talent. She took nudity to the stage of art, her dance coins in the guise of religious worship were captivating. A few months later, Mother Harry returned to Paris. He was followed by two police inspectors in civilian clothes who found no evidence of his involvement in espionage. Mother Harry spent six months in the besieged city, ignoring the surveillance. And the reason for staying here for these six months was an event that could happen in the life of a barbarian like her, something she couldn’t even imagine. He fell in love. In Paris, Mother Harry met Vladimir du Masloff, a 21-year-old Russian captain serving in the French army. The two fell in love, but Masloff had to return to the battlefield quickly. There his left eye was damaged by a terrible German mustard gas attack. This war-wounded young mother gave birth to a great Maya in Harry's mind. To that Dutch baron He spent most of the money he got from buying good food for Masaloff or paying off his gambling debts. The love vision of these two was different. Mata Hari was in her forties when she left the life of a dancer. It goes without saying that there is no possibility of marrying an aristocratic lord and starting a family. But he won the heart of a handsome officer who was responsible for the deaths of at least a hundred German soldiers on the battlefield. Meanwhile, Masalof knew that his lover was no more, but mother Hari is a name! A fantasy! A war-wounded soldier whose next job is to join a trench-digging team, where he is unlikely to survive for another five months, not only found his mother Harry as a lover, but also a friend he had adopted in the humidity. Little did she realize that the love affair between the two was trapping Mother Harry in a terrible future. The incident began when Masalof was admitted to a hospital in Vittel, very close to the battlefield, and Mother Harry wanted to see him. There was a need to show a special side to get there. Growing up, he met Giorgi Landu. Capt. Giorgi Landu, a short-haired, carefully trimmed beard, sophisticated mustache and wavy-haired intelligence officer, was a captain in the French army. He told Mother Harry at his first meeting in August 1918 that he had received information from the British that Mata Harry was a German spy.

**Giorgi Landu** Landu thought, this is an opportunity! If Mother Harry is a true German spy, she may be offered the role of a double agent instead of a French spy. And if he is not a German spy, then the job will be easier. In any case, the French intelligence officer Landu was interested in making him a French spy. In the course of the discussion, therefore, Landu proposed to Mother Harry to spy for France on the basis of her friendship with various celebrities she had developed over the years. Mother Harry said she would consider if the price was reasonable. That's when Landu gave him a special pass to go to that hospital in Vittel. Mother Harry may have had the opportunity to come in contact with her boyfriend, but she didn't know she had taken the death warrant. Vittel was the first test for Mother Harry near Landur. If he really met her just out of love for Masaloff and did not gather any military information from her, then it would be understood that he would be dealt with. He must be able to convince the Germans that he is one of them because of his respect for the German aristocracy and his proficiency in the German language, or if the information given by the British is correct, he is still one of them. With this in mind, Landu began to prepare a plan. Police reported that Mother Harry did nothing suspicious during the one week she spent with Masaloff. So when he returned to Paris from Vital, Landu officially hired him as a French spy. Mother Harry told Landu directly that she was going to do this job just for the money because she loves Masloff and is unable to earn because she was wounded in the war. But he wants to be rich enough to have a family with Masloff. Mother Harry was given her first assignment as a spy in Belgium. The beginning is the life of the spy mother Harry. Is the story of blaming Mother Harry's espionage for the deaths of 50,000 soldiers in World War I true, or is it just a myth to trap the dreamy woman's survival?

The firs i tells the story of the turning point in the life of Mother Harry, who was sentenced to death 100 years ago in 1917 for spying against France in World War I. After a love affair with Vladimir de Masloff, a young war-wounded officer, Bivore's mother, Harry, dreams of a happy marriage and is forced to spy on Germany by Captain Giorgi Landu, a French intelligence officer. Mother Harry was sent to Belgium as the first assignment. From there, the story of Mother Harry's life, burdened with the sigh of pain, begins.

While in Belgium, Mata Harry's job was to get acquainted with a German general working there through an ex-boyfriend. Through her love affair with the general, Mother Harry will reach Prince Wilhelm, the Crown Prince of Germany. And Germany will collect information about the war from the prince and send it to France. Mother Harry demanded one million gold francs from Landur for this work. Landu told him to go to The Hague, where an agent would contact him. He went to Spain. After spending the night in Madrid on November 7, Mother Hari boarded the ship the next day. There, British troops came to conduct a routine search. What a terrible misfortune! A British constable, seeing the appearance of another wanted German spy, arrested her thinking she was a woman. He was interrogated in London. Mata Hari told a high-ranking official there that she was working as a landlord. But when the news reached Landu, he replied that he did not know Mother Harry and that he should be sent back to Spain. Perhaps Landu responded by wondering if the British would consider him a fool again after hearing of his spy being arrested by the British. As a result, the British had no doubt that Mother Harry was a German spy! Three days later, Mother Harry was sent to Spain. From there he wrote to Landu again about his experience and asking for directions. Landu did not reply. Then the second week of December 1918. Landu did not send any instructions to mother Hari. Meanwhile, his money is running out, so it is no longer possible to leave Madrid. Then Mother Harry thought that she would send the news of the Germans to Landur at her own risk, then maybe she would get an answer. With this in mind, he arranged to meet with him at the home of Major Arnold Kall, the German military ambassador. After meeting with Mother Harry, Major Caley initially listened to her talk and realized his purpose. But he did not understand that. On the first day, Caley informed him that he was procuring a submarine to send some German and Turkish officers to French territory in Morocco. He wrote the information to Mother Harry Landu that night, along with the name of a German agent mentioned by Cal. Landu, meanwhile, had already learned the story of the submarine through French detectives, who also knew that both the story and the agent's name were fake. In fact, Major Cale wanted to hang Mother Harry from the French. In espionage it is said to give poisonous information, that is, to give some trivial information in a mixture of truth and falsehood. That's what Cale's mother was doing to Harry as if he was betraying France as a spy. For two more days Cale continued to give him information in this way, and he sent it to France, while Landu already knew the information. Mother Harry wondered if she had been able to convince the German Major that she was German-minded. To reinforce that belief, he gave Cal some important information about the French from chats and magazines. Cale also pretended to be happy and gave him some money in return. After working as a spy for three days in a row, Mother Harry thought she might have done enough. Now it's time to return to France to pay for this successful assignment. On January 4, 1918, he returned to Paris and found that Landu did not want to see him, nor did he know where Masalof was on the battlefield. In early 1918, the Allies were in despair, especially in France. They did not achieve anything except terrible losses due to the war. In the five months from February to June 1917 alone, France lost three and a half million troops. Mother Harry became terribly helpless around. Landur has no answer. When he met Masalof, he said that after receiving information from the Russian embassy in Paris, his commanding officer forbade him to have an affair with Harry. After searching for Landu for a few more weeks, he was informed that Landu had been sent to another area. Already his money was running out. Meanwhile, many more misfortunes were waiting for him without his knowledge. British intelligence knew the cipher code for sending German intelligence and was passing that information to the Allies. In 1917, the Germans introduced a new code that they thought was safe, but British spies also discovered the meaning of the code. I have to go back in December to know the incident. Mother Harry was then spying on Major Cal on her own responsibility in Madrid. A message from the British intelligence agency on the radio set up on the Eiffel Tower. After retrieving the cipher code, it is learned that Major Cale is sending information to his superiors based on the information provided by a spy with the code 'H21', and this information is about the French forces. I remember that Mother Harry gave some light information to Major Kale. However, seeing this message, Landu thought that getting the code ‘H21’ meant that Mother Harry had established herself as credible to the Germans. But suspicion arose from here, mother Hari was not given this assignment, why did she go to do this job? Another rescued message later revealed that the Germans had asked H21 for more information. Then Landu began to believe that Mother Harry was really a German spy. But he was not arrested then. He was kept under surveillance in order to track down a network of German spies in Paris. In mid-January, Landu found out information that could have saved Mother Harry if she had wanted to. It is learned that the Germans exchanged information in the name of Mata Harry with the code 'H21' after learning of the rescue of their cipher code from the British. In order to recover this information, the French killed their own spies on charges of treason. Landu realized that mother Harry was innocent but she did not protect him with this information. Who knows why! Perhaps he thought that the arrest of the famous mother Harry would be a big blow to the frustrated French camp. Just kill the spies as much as you can without fighting on the battlefield - even if it shows, the soldiers will at least think the government is doing something for them. This may also be due to the constant pressure from the French president's office to arrest the spies. Mata Hari was arrested on 13 February 1917 on charges of spying for the enemy. "I am innocent," said Harry in a written statement to military prosecutor Pierre Bouchardon. Someone is trapping me, maybe it's the French intelligence. Because I am working for it and just following its instructions. ” News of Mata Hari's arrest was kept secret. He could not meet Masloff or anyone. She hired her ex-boyfriend, Edward Clunet, as her lawyer. The 64-year-old Clunet was not well versed in martial law and had not fought a case for four long years. Bouchardon had no serious allegations against Mother Harry. Although he knew that Mother Harry had given some information to Madrid, he did not know that the Germans had set a trap for cipher messages. In the meantime, Bouchardon received a receipt for five thousand francs from El Mata Harry and was told that the Germans had given the money to Harry on the basis of "secret information". Although it is true that Mother Harry accepted the money, it was actually given by her boyfriend, the Dutch baron. Bouchardon tried his best to get a confession from Mother Harry. Meanwhile, the Germans have not stopped using their cunning. They again sought the news of Mother Harry from Major Cal to strengthen the French suspicions against her. The Germans knew about Mother Harry's arrest, but she pretended not to know about it two months later, and the French thought the German spies were too weak. Mother Harry repeatedly tried to convince her that she was innocent, that the Germans had taken everything she had at the beginning of the war, that she could not work for them. But the last nail in his coffin was nailed. He gave Bushardon the information he needed to break the German cipher code, but did not say where the gap was. He even secretly suggested that the trial be completed.

**Mother Hari was kept in that prison** Lawyer Clunet, meanwhile, sought the Dutch baron's testimony to clear the case of the five thousand francs, but the court did not allow it. The Clunet then made a final attempt to persuade Landu and Bushardon to meet Mother Harry. Mati Hari then reported an incident from the past. One night in May 1918, he was called by the German ambassador to Amsterdam, Kroemer. He offered to spy on the Germans for twenty thousand francs. The Germans took all his money, so let's lose as much of their money as possible, for this purpose Mother Harry took the money. But after taking that money, he didn't meet with Cromer or do anything. This incident shows the reason why the Germans are so angry with their mother Harry. The Germans were trying their best to get the French to kill Mother Harry, who had come to spy on them again with money from them. Mother Harry admits that she acted recklessly, but repeatedly said, "I'm not a professional spy, I just want to live with love and happiness." Still, Landu and Bushardon did not mind. The trial took place on July 24. Judge Andre Mornet, a wartime lieutenant. At that time the condition of France in the war was deplorable. One of the largest number of soldiers in history has died. Ordinary people and people in the military are all disappointed. In this situation, the French government tried to put the blame for this great tragedy on the shoulders of someone else. That shoulder is that of a foreign spy. Of these, 500 foreigners have been detained on suspicion of espionage, of which 300 have been sentenced to death. Through this crackdown on foreign spies, the government wanted to prove that the responsibility for the plight on the battlefield was not theirs, but that of foreign spies.

**Mother Harry is on trial** Judge Marnett told the court that Harry, who had been under close surveillance for a long time, had been known to lure French military officers into gathering love. Mornet said all the details of his love affair with Masloff, his arrest in Britain, getting the H21 code, and so on. She said this woman is one of the scariest women in the world. He knows many languages, his fine acting, his upright movement, his intellect, his cunning are all used in his espionage. Mornet tried to establish that the Berlin police officer was a German intelligence official and that he had a true love affair with Harry. He said, “What an incredible devil this woman is! She's probably the most horrible female spy of the century. " No evidence was taken against Harry. An old friend of his, General Adolf Pierre Massimi, wrote that Mother Harry had never talked to him about war. Another friend, Marguerite, wanted to testify on his behalf, but the court did not grant him a chance. After completing the trial without evidence in just 40 minutes, Mata Harry was found guilty of eight counts of espionage against France in 1915 and 1917. Mother Harry spent only three afternoons in her spying life. He did nothing but get some false information from Major Cal and give him some general information. He took money from the Germans but did not give them any information. A search of German spies and memoirs of World War I turned up Mata Hari's name. But the subtle plot to assassinate him with false accusations of treason succeeded. October 15, 1918, in the morning. Mother Harry is ready for the final journey. He wrote three letters. To his daughter, Masloff and Marguerite. He was taken by car from prison to Vincennes' large field. A team of 12 soldiers made up of weapons. Mother Harry took off her coat and gave it to the female priest who had come with her. An officer grabbed L's hand to lead him forward. Mother Harry reached out her hand and walked alone to the spot where the shots would be fired. On the way he saw 12 soldiers. Upon arrival, a captain heard his death sentence read. An officer came to tie his hands behind his back. "He won't need it," said Mother Harry. He then forbade her to wear black clothes over his eyes. The officer said in a low voice to the commander of the army beside him, "This woman knows how to die." The captain raised his hand and told the soldiers to get ready. Mother Harry looked to the front. Say in a clear voice, "Thank you, sir." With a gentle smile, he then gently touched his hand to his lips and threw a flying kiss at the firing squad. The captain lowered his hand and ordered the firing. There are 11 bullets. Because a soldier fell unconscious.

**The film depicts the execution of mother Hari** Mother Harry was not as frightened as in the movie scene. Gradually his legs became folded. Still raising his head. Then he leaned back. A soldier came forward and pulled out a revolver and shot him in the head. Mother Harry was sure to say goodbye to the unknown.

**The bell was rung on the evening of Mother Harry's execution** This is how a tragedy drama of history was created. In this world, people have called many men and women of history heroes, remembering them for their fame. But Mother Harry's name was nowhere honored as a hero. But even though it is not written in human history, the world knows that he was not responsible for the death of a soldier, that Mother Harry was not a traitor, that he did not kill the humanity of the heart. Mother Harry didn't want to be at the top of the list of spies on false accusations, she dreamed of a happy world, she wanted to live with love and happiness.