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Sister Edith Cavell Saved Soldiers on Both Sides. the Germans Still Executed Her.

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On Tuesday, October 12, 1915, at seven o'clock in the morning, Red Cross nurse Edith Louisa Cavell appeared before the firing squad of 16 German soldiers. She had been treating their comrades in the hospital in Saint-Gilles as early as August, but now she was facing the main gunfire. The executioner's volley and the sure shot from a pistol exploded. What had the nurse done wrong? She had helped Allied soldiers who were trying to escape from capt…
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On Tuesday, October 12, 1915, at seven o'clock in the morning, Red Cross nurse Edith Louisa Cavell appeared before the firing squad of 16 German soldiers. She had been treating their comrades in the hospital in Saint-Gilles as early as August, but now she was facing the main gunfire. The executioner's volley and the sure shot from a pistol exploded. What had the nurse done wrong? She had helped Allied soldiers who were trying to escape from capt…

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Deník.cz broke the news in on Sunday, October 12, 2025.
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