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Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good… They died trying to make America great again.

This song’s great. Maybe it’s time Bruce became president.

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Any historians (amateur or professional) of Germany in the late 1920s and earlier 1930s here?

Were there promoters of National Socialism who kept to #EzraKlein's formula for doing politics the right way?

#NationalSocialists

J.M.

Echt, 8 October 1941

Pax Christi!

Dear Reverend Mother Johanna,

Our dear Mother gave me permission to send Y.R. [Your Reverence], once more, the exact titles of the books I would like to have.

Besides, Reverend Mother would like three more copies of the book Aimer souffrir, which Y.R. sent recently. P. Antonius received the first one on September 30 for his 50th birthday.

On Monday morning Rosa and I went to the Police Commissioner in Maastricht to register according to regulations. In the meantime, the Sisters prayed here and all went very well.

Rosa reported that Y.R. is better. That made me very happy.

Please, will Y.R. also pray a little to the Holy Spirit and to our Holy Father [St.] John for what I am now planning to write. It is to be something for our Holy Father’s 400th Birthday (June 24, 1942), but all of it must come from above.

In the big book about St. John there is, among other things, a sketch he drew after having a vision of the Crucified.

From the bus recently, (when) I saw the little monastery in Beek and also the house where Sister Johanna lives, I sent greetings over to them.

Best regards to all the dear Sisters, especially to Y.R.

In Corde Jesu, Y.R.’s least, grateful

Sister Teresa Benedicta a Cruce

Saint Edith Stein

Letter 323 to Mother Johanna van Weersth, O.C.D.
Carmel of Beek, Netherlands
8 October 1941

Note: What Edith was planning to write, at the request of her prioress, was The Science of the Cross, which was published posthumously by her Sisters.

Stein, E. 1993, Self-Portrait in Letters, 1916-1942, Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Discalced Carmelite, translated from the German by Koeppel, J, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: The text of the first sentence of The Science of the Cross is superimposed over a photo of an antique typewriter in the background. Image credit: benniebunnie / Flickr (Some rights reserved)

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I’m not leaving today [for the Dachau concentration camp]. So the danger has been postponed for eight days. Perhaps I will be spared the worst. Now, don’t let up on praying. I put all my trust in prayer. And people shouldn’t let up either, as long as I’m not free. Perseverance!

Today I submitted another request for release. I am firmly convinced that God will hear our prayers and set me free again, even though things look bleak at the moment. I have had to endure some difficult days so far, and I wouldn’t wish them on my worst enemy. God has always given me strength.

Blessed Georg Häfner

Letter to his housekeepers from the Gestapo’s detention center in Würzburg

Learn more about Blessed Georg Häfner

Translation from the German text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: Blessed Georg Häfner is seen in his Gestapo booking photo (left) and in a formal portrait (right), which was used for the holy card printed after his death. Image credits: Diocese of Würzburg, Wikipedia (Non-free use)

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The Pastoral Letter from the Dutch bishops
26 July 1942

Saint Edith Stein’s biographer and former novice mistress, Sister Teresia Renata Posselt, O.C.D. of the Carmel of Cologne witnessed from a distance the events in the Netherlands leading to the arrest of Edith Stein. She tells us that even in Germany, Hitler’s regime was targeting Discalced Carmelite nuns:

The first victims were the Sisters in Luxembourg who were driven out of their monastery in February 1941 so that it could be made into a clubhouse and dance-hall for the B.d.M. [League of German Girls]. Scarcely had these homeless nuns found refuge with their Sisters in Pützchen before this Carmel also, together with the Carmel of Aachen, was dissolved in a space of two hours by the arbitrary power of the Gestapo. Düren followed in August of the same year.

Sr. Teresia Renata indicates that during that same time frame, relations between the regime and the Dutch bishops had deteriorated:

In Holland, the regulations issued against the Jews grew steadily more fierce. In August 1941, a conflict had already arisen between the Dutch Episcopate and the German authorities.

Among the measures in Holland that caused the Dutch bishops to bristle: a 1941 decree from the regime, which stated that only Jewish teachers could teach Jewish children. The decree meant that Catholic children of Jewish parentage no longer could attend Catholic schools. Cardinal de Jong of Utrecht protested, declaring that Catholic schools would never exclude children because of their heritage.

When the Nazi regime next decreed that signs stating “Forbidden to Jews” should be posted on all public buildings, once again the Dutch bishops refused to comply. But all of these measures paled in comparison to what followed, as Sr. Teresia Renata explains:

Yet the exclusion of Jews from public life was nothing when compared to the mass deportations of men, women, and children, indeed of whole Jewish families, that began in 1942. As was generally feared, many of them went to meet certain death in the Polish concentration camps, where they were either gassed or driven to do inhuman work in the salt, lead, or tin mines.

Thus it followed that a telegram was sent to the highest Nazi official in the Netherlands (Reichskommissar Arthur Seyss-Inquart) on 11 July 1942 by a united, ecumenical representation of Dutch churches expressing their anger at the deportations.

The Nazi regime replied that any converted Jews who became Christians before 1941 would be spared deportation. However, the Dutch churches, including the Catholics, were not appeased; they were still opposed to the mass deportations of the Jews.

Sr. Teresia Renata describes what happened next:

[T]herefore they resolved to issue a joint protest in writing that was to be read publicly in all the churches on Sunday 26 July 1942. The proclamation should contain the text of the telegram sent to Seyss-Inquart on 11 July 1942. But even before the day on which it was to be read, Seyss-Inquart and Schmidt [his associate, the General-Kommissar] found out about the content of this joint letter of the church communities.

On 24 July the Nazi officials made concerted efforts to persuade church leaders to omit the text of the 11 July protest telegram from their public proclamation to be read from the pulpit. Some were ready to relent, but Cardinal de Jong of Utrecht stood his ground. That a worldly power should intervene to influence the pastoral duties of the bishops was unthinkable.

Furthermore, the Dutch bishops’ pastoral letter had already been written on 20 July and distributed. It was impossible to retract the statement on purely practical grounds.

Thus on Sunday 26 July 1942, the pastoral letter of the Dutch episcopal conference was read in every church at every Mass. Sr. Teresia Renata tells us that the letter began as follows:

We are experiencing a time of great distress, as well from a spiritual as from a material standpoint. But there are two problems greater than any others, that of the Jews and that of those who are deported to forced labor abroad.

We must all become deeply aware of these dangers, and it is the purpose of this joint pastoral letter to make you conscious of them.

Such distress must also be brought to the notice of those who exercise power over these people. Therefore the Most Reverend [Catholic] Episcopate of the Netherlands, in conjunction with almost all the other church communities in the Netherlands, has turned to the authorities of the occupying forces; for the Jews among others, in a telegram with the following content dispatched on Saturday 11 July of this year:

“The undersigned church communities of the Netherlands, deeply shaken by the measures taken against the Jews in the Netherlands that have excluded them from participation in the normal life of the people, have learned with horror of the latest regulations by which men, women, children, and whole families are to be deported to the territory of the German Reich…”

The Nazi response was swift. On the following Sunday, 2 August 1942, Jewish converts in religious Orders were rounded up all over the Netherlands. St. Edith Stein and her sister Rosa were among them.

On the same day, General-Kommissar Schmidt publicly announced that the deportations were a direct reprisal against the pastoral letter that was read in the churches on 26 July. Sr. Teresia Renata tells us that Schmidt pressed the issue further:

Since the Catholic hierarchy… refuses to trouble about negotiations [to edit their letter], then we, for our part, are compelled to regard the Catholic Jews as our worst enemies and consequently see to their deportation to the East with all possible speed.

So it was that a Verbite priest remarked later: “all these religious, both men and women, truly died in testimonium fidei [in witness to the faith as martyrs], because their arrest was an act of reprisal for the bishops’ pastoral letter.”

Sister Teresia Renata Posselt, O.C.D.

Chapter 20, Plans of escape (excerpts)

Note: On the same day that the Catholic bishops’ pastoral letter was read in all the Dutch parishes, St. Titus Brandsma died a martyr in Dachau, on 26 July 1942. Edith and Rosa Stein were among scores of “Catholic Jews” who were arrested on 2 August 1942.

Posselt, T 2005, Edith Stein: The Life of a Philosopher and Carmelite, translated from the German by Batzdorff S, Koeppel J, and Sullivan J, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: The Dutch episcopal conference met in the Bishop’s Palace in Utrecht on 14 December 1943. From left to right: Bishop J.P. Huybers (Haarlem), Bishop P. Hopmans (Breda), Cardinal Archbishop Dr. J. de Jong (Utrecht), Bishop G. Lemmens (Roermond, in which diocese the Carmel of Echt was located), Bishop W.P.A.M. Mutsaerts (Den Bosch). Image credit: NIOD Photo Archives (used by permission) 

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This is how #Hitler and the #NationalSocialists came to pconcentrate ower. Very, Vey dangerous. Think it through.... If #UKLabour win next elections by a landslide they could ban the #tories as an extermist party. This is what #Putin is doing now.

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