Why was Edith Cavell used in anti-German propaganda posters?

Edith Cavell was a British nurse who helped Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during World War I. Germany convicted her of treason and executed her in 1915, and Allied propaganda used her death to portray Germany as cruel and unjust. She was not a victim of the Lusitania sinking or a German spy.

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