It Would Eventually Fall

The Berlin Wall being built in 1961.

Mata Hari

Mata Hari pictured in 1906 wearing only a bra and jewelry

A Dutch exotic dancer who was better known by her stage name Mata Hari, Margarettia Geertruida Zelle was born in the Netherlands on August 7, 1876. At the age of 41, her spying for Germany during World War I was believed to have caused the deaths of 50,000 soldiers. As a result, Mata Hari was found guilty and executed by firing squad on October 15, 1917.

Anne Frank

Anne Frank (May 1942)

Annelies Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany. During her life, she would become one of the most recognized Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Known for her creative writing, her diary became one of the world's most read books. Anne Frank died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in late March 1945 at the age of 15.