Espionage, a headache for intelligence agencies, is the profession of a spy in an enemy country, stealing secret information, or carrying out sabotage activities. Since its birth, spy warfare has played a huge role on the battlefield, and we all know that the battlefield is changing rapidly, and one piece of information is enough to change the direction of the campaign.
The majority of spies are female spies, because women can seduce senior officers through the "beauty plan" to obtain important intelligence, and senior officers are mostly male, so the success rate of women is relatively high. There are many famous female spies in history, such as Yoshiko Kawashima, Christina Granville, etc., the most famous of which is Marta Harry. Her biggest killer skill is her beauty.
So how beautiful is she? After her death, because she was too beautiful to be cremated, she kept her head, made it embalmed, and now placed it in a museum for people to visit. Harry is one of the top ten most famous female spies in history. During World War I, he was a double agent who was circling between France and Germany, and was finally captured and executed by French intelligence. Her legendary stories have a high reputation in the West, and there are many books and movies involved in them, which have a certain influence on Western culture.
Harry is actually her stage name, and her real name is Ida Zeli. Born in the Netherlands in 1876, she grew up in a wealthy and happy family, and she lived leisurely to the age of seven. At the age of seven, the family moved to Leiden, and his father's business plummeted, coupled with the failure of investment and the hardships of life, the family moved to the slums.
Her father sought an opportunity to rise and divorced her mother, and the young Harry was placed in foster care at a relative's house, and when relatives saw her as beautiful, they married a retired Navy non-commissioned officer. But her marriage to the non-commissioned officer was not happy, her husband was an alcoholic, domestic violence, and in 1903 the marriage finally ended, she was left alone in Paris to make a living.
Harry was beautiful and did everything, and finally entered the Paris Theater and became a dancer who swept thousands of men. In 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I, german general Mirbach saw her espionage potential and offered to take her as a spy.
At first, she was very hesitant, but considering that the current job was "youth rice", it would soon pass, it was better to be a spy, it was profitable, so the German intelligence department spent a lot of money to turn Harry into her own spy. She was dressed up in a flamboyant manner, and indeed seduced senior French officers.
She received important information from the "pillow wind" of French officers and conveyed it to the Germans, who suffered heavy losses at the Battle of the Marne at the beginning of the First World War because of intelligence leaks. Then, as the allies's victory trend intensified, she was worried, so she was also selling important information to the French.
However, she was captured by the British and French counter-espionage agencies and killed by the French army in Paris for treason. There are many versions of her death, the most famous of which is that she flew a kiss to the executioner, and finally left a last word of "thank you, sir", facing death calmly. After her death, she became an unclaimed corpse and was used as a medical experiment.
Her head was protected by preservatives and stored in the Anatomy Museum in Paris, attracting countless admirers in future generations. Therefore, it is not enough for a woman to be beautiful, but also to have morality and ability. Harry's legendary spy half a life, and thus came to an end.