The residents of Burgsteinfurt are forced by the British to watch a film about Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald, 30 May 1945. Let's just say that the forced 'de-nazification' didn't go down all that well.

Force-feeding

&quot;Edith Stein was born to a Jewish family at Breslau on 12th October 1891.  Through her passionate study of philosophy she searched after truth and found it in reading the autobiography of St. Teresa of Jesus.  

In 1922 she was baptised and in 1933 she entered the monastery of Discalced Carmelite nuns in Cologne where she took the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. During the Second World War Edith was sheltered from the Nazi persecution of Jews at the Carmel in Echt, Holland. Because of her refusal to deny her Jewish heritage or abandon her sister who was sheltering in the same Carmel, Edith was deported, gassed and cremated at Auschwitz concentration camp on 9th August 1942 and died a martyr for the Christian faith after having offered her holocaust for the people of Israel. 

A woman of singular intelligence and learning, she left behind a large body of writing notable for its doctrinal richness and profound spirituality. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II at Cologne on 1st May 1987, and canonised by him in 1998. In 1999 she was declared one of the six patron saints of Europe...&quot;

-The British Province of Carmelites

Edith Stein

German-occupied Warsaw in 1944. Just before anti-german Warsaw Uprising (1944). Poles gentiles and a few Jews were fighting against Nazi Germans. In the photo: Warsaw Main Rail Station and Poles.