Hansa Wittig, alias Claude France
The daughter of a veterinarian met in Bern as a nurse in 1915 Count de Chilly a dismissed officer paroled in Switzerland. Through him, she got into the French espionage. His mission was to expose through her help, the German spy Mata Hari. She crept into her confidence and in the process was the witness on whose testimony Mata Hari was sentenced and shot
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10618681
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48178244
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1846px x 2685px
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Credit
Mary Evans / Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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