The Roots of National Socialism and Germany's Reckoning with its PastMain MenuBy way of introductionThe Context: Germany in the 1920s and Early 1930sAnd into this context there stepped one man . . .Anti-Semitism was Central to Nazi PropagandaPopular Sentiment: "At least Hitler isn't a Communist . . ."Nazi Officials Use Propaganda to Win Popular SupportNazis Pretend Life Goes on as Usual, Even in WarOne of Six Million Jews Slaughtered by the Nazis: Edith SteinWhat Psychologists Say about the Roots of NazismJung's 1946 Essay "After the Catastrophe"Germany's Reckoning with its PastSome Provisional ConclusionsWorks CitedCreative Commons LicenseCathy Kroll0c0427ebd621fb54b22b23c07748d7202fcfe9c8
Edith Stein, Catholic nun
12017-09-03T19:13:18-07:00Cathy Kroll0c0427ebd621fb54b22b23c07748d7202fcfe9c8222701Edith Stein, Catholic nun and philosopher who converted from Judaism and was killed at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942. Author photo, Regensburg. 2017.plain2017-09-03T19:13:19-07:002017082013472720170820134727Cathy Kroll0c0427ebd621fb54b22b23c07748d7202fcfe9c8
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12017-09-04T22:01:23-07:00One of Six Million Jews Slaughtered by the Nazis: Edith Stein11plain2018-02-13T17:05:45-08:00We owe tribute and memory to each one of the millions who were murdered in the death camps, in ghettos, in the mobile extermination squads, in bombing raids, and on the battlefield. But I can only pause and memorialize one individual here.
Edith Stein (1891-1942, the youngest of eleven children born into a German Jewish family in Breslau, Prussia, was a gifted philosopher who completed her dissertation in 1916 at the University of Freiburg. Shortly after reading a biography of St. Teresa of Avila in 1921, she was inspired to convert to Catholicism and became a religion teacher. In 1933 when the Nazis came to power and imposed an "Aryan Certificate" rule for civil servants at this time, she could not produce such a certificate, so she gave up teaching. In 1938 her order of Carmelite nuns moved her to a monastery in the Netherlands. Four years later, however, she was arrested by the Nazis during the occupation of the Netherlands, transported to Auschwitz, and was killed in the gas chamber in 1942. She is remembered today as a martyr. This poster hangs in a Catholic church in Regensburg, and her marble bust appears in the German hall of legendary figures known as the Walhalla near Regensburg.