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  • 5/1/2025
The true story of Edith Stein, a German Jewish philosopher and feminist who converted to Christianity and became a nun, | dG1fd2dGMzU1dVdYcVE
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00:00This story is full of controversy.
00:04Church versus state, anti-semitism, civil rights, the war.
00:08This is tailor-made for you, Michael.
00:10A chance for your voice to be heard.
00:12Maybe even a Pulitzer.
00:14Looking for leaders means to be consequent, young man.
00:18Committed to the truth.
00:21Are you trying to scare me off?
00:23I would be very afraid.
00:27What's your nationality?
00:29German.
00:31For me at that young age, in those first years of living,
00:35father could do no wrong.
00:41Your race?
00:42Jewish.
00:44God had died the day they buried my father.
00:47No one could fix this.
00:49No one on earth, and no one in heaven.
00:52Your father's race?
00:53Jewish.
00:57Your mother's race?
00:58Jewish.
01:02It took me years to hear God's voice again.
01:07Years of battle and war.
01:09The last surviving sister of Edith, Erna Biberstein.
01:13You had a diary?
01:15The unexpected.
01:16When that happens, all bets off.
01:19Don't die, Hans.
01:20Is that inordinate?
01:21Because if it is, you should tell my commanding officer.
01:26She loved Hans.
01:27They were made for one another.
01:29What are you doing here?
01:30I've actually fallen in love with you here.
01:33Is that what this is?
01:34A romance?
01:35You are playing this fire, Eddie.
01:38Your active involvement in women's lives.
01:42They want us to obey them.
01:43They want us to be quiet.
01:46These gentlemen come to escort you out of the class.
01:49Why did you become a nun?
01:52To serve Christ?
01:54People just can't come in here expecting to become Catholics, young lady.
01:59Espiritu Sancti.
02:00You think Edith ever forgave the church for doing so little?
02:05She was one of the few who stood up to the Nazis right to the burial.
02:14Why didn't you do something?
02:15A rose in winter.
02:29The Edith Stein story.
02:45I hope you enjoyed it.
02:46I hope

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