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Margeretha Geertruida Zelle, better recognized to background by the unique, attractive name of Mata Hari, was a woman who profited greatly from the power of illusion during a lot of her short life. Given birth to to a hatter named Adam Zelle and his better half Antje vehicle der Meulen, Mata Hari relocated from a economically rewarding but unpleasant matrimony to circus performances to exotic dance and star to the role of ostensible international spy within an arc that concluded tragically in front of a French firing squad. To a certain degree, Mata Hari's complete adult life displayed a triumph of advertising. As advertising depicts products so that they are associated with other advisable things which have little or nothing to do with the things themselves - passionate or intimate success, beautiful landscapes or unique locations, thrills, financial success, young ones and attractiveness, and so forth - Mata Hari created an aura of strange glamour around herself to sell to the public, something that could never have happened had she only been seen for what she was, a Dutch courtesan with complex costumes. However, as illusion had offered her well in creating noteworthy popularity and transitory lot of money, phantasms and lies ultimately demolished Mata Hari. Rashly entangling herself in the foreign affairs of France and Germany during the bitter years of World War I, the unique dancer found herself completely out of her depth. Used briefly as a pawn by both attributes, Mata Hari found her destiny when the Germans deliberately incriminated her and the France cynically sacrificed her as a scapegoat because of their armed forces failures. Executed by firing squad and subjected to the macabre ritual of having her severed, preserved head retained for decades at a French medical institution as a kind of bizarre trophy, Mata Hari ironically acquired the everlasting popularity she craved. She also tragically contributed one final legend to the shared mythology of humanity: that of the seductive woman super-spy who uses both a keenly devious intellect and irresistible feminine wiles to improve the destiny of nations and empires. It's still a robust archetype, despite being truly a much cry from the truth of the real Mata Hari. The France Military itself also contributed firmly to the legend of Mata Hari. To protect state secrets, and perhaps to conceal their own judicial wrongdoing, the French armed forces court sealed all of the trial records for a century, until overdue 2017, when all involved would assuredly be useless. A journalist, Alain Presles, and an writer, Sam Waagenaar, both said to possess read and even copied the secret file, but the veracity of their claim remains anonymous until the data are exposed to the public and whatever portion of the reality they contain is manufactured recognized to pierce the swirling mist of rumor and deception encompassing the death of Mata Hari.
