Gabrielle Petit - a working-class Belgian woman who revolted against the German occupation of Belgium.
What did she mean when she exclaimed ‘I'M DONE BEING USELESS!’
Despina Storch - a deceitful yet beautiful German spy used her treacherous gambits to lead many military and political officials astray.
Felice Schmidt - one of Germany’s craftiest spies in the Great War.
Young officers and military men were taken with her beauty and charming wit, but she had her eyes on a much bigger target.
Louise de Bettignies - Under the alias of Alice Dubois, Louise was a spy of French origin recruited by the British to spy on the Germans.
She was the clever engineer of the Alice Network.
Sarah Aaronsohn -As the head of the Nili network, Sarah recruited spies and conducted espionage from places like Jerusalem, Nazareth,
and along the Mediterranean coast.
One challenge for her was managing the men of the network as they were either too infatuated with her or recklessly defied her orders.
Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois - Under her stage name Mistinguett,
she hiked her skirt up her leg, showing an indecent amount of skin,
and called back, saying, “How much higher do you want it to go?”.
Later, she would go to Germany under the guise of reporting back to her German masters when she would actually be spying on the Germans for the French.
It was a clever plan, but was she as good a spy as she was a performer?
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