"The Crime That Shook the World" - The Execution of Edith Cavell - Week 65
The Great War - 1915 - Stalemate

"The Crime That Shook the World" - The Execution of Edith Cavell - Week 65 ()

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Edith Cavell was a British nurse serving in a nursing school in occupied Belgium. She was executed by the Germans for treason and espionage in Brussels. Her death and the surrounding atrocity propaganda caused a public outcry all over the world. At the same time the First World War continued like never before. The Third Battle of the Isonzo didn't bring a decision between Austria-Hungary and Italy, in Gallipoli the troops were slowly withdrawn and the the Champagne offensive of the French army was still in full swing.