Death of a Spy

 A 1906 postcard features Mata Hari

On Oct. 17, 1917, a woman known by her stage name of Mata Hari was led out to the courtyard of an old fort in France. She refused to be blindfolded, and she was not bound. The Dutch citizen had been found guilty of spying for Germany, and her execution by firing squad was ~ and is ~ considered by many to be a major miscarriage of justice, that she was a scapegoat and was being used to distract the public from France's military losses on the Western front.
Will we ever get closer to the truth? Yes, on Oct. 17, 2017, 100 years after her death, when the French army releases its sealed documents about her: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mata-hari-is-executed