Nurse Edith Cavell is executed by the Germans

Edith Louisa Cavell (December 4, 1865–October 12, 1915) was a British World War I nurse and humanitarian. She is celebrated for helping hundreds of Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium. Her subsequent execution received significant sympathetic press coverage worldwide. “Patriotism is not enough…” Her strong religious belief propelled Cavell to help all those who needed help - whether a member of the German forces or the Allied forces. “I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved”
Nurse Cavell helped hundreds of soldiers from the Allied forces to escape from occupied Belgium to the neutral Netherlands, in violation of military law. She was arrested on August 3, 1915 and charged with harbouring Allied soldiers, not for espionage. She was jailed for 10 weeks, with the last two weeks being in solitary confinement and court-martialled by the Germans for this offence.

The execution of Edith Cavell was widely publicized by the British government through a large number of newspaper articles, pamphlets, images, and books in the months and years immediately following her death. She became an iconic propaganda figure for military recruitment in Britain, and to help increase favourable American sentiment towards the Allies. Cavell was an appealing public icon due to her sex and her nursing profession, and because she apparently approached her death with a considerable amount of heroism.
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Both the U.S. embassy like that of Spain intervened by commutation of sentence, claiming their status as nurse of the red cross was set in stone but the court's decision and on October 12, 1915 was shot. From platoon responsible for implementing the area was a soldier who refused to shoot and he had to be replaced by the officer.

REST IN PEACE