Holocaust-denial and St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein feast 8/9)

St Teresa Benedicta, in a letter to Pope Pius XI, dated 1933:

"We are convinced that this silence will not be able, in the long run,

to purchase peace with the present German government.

For the time being, the fight against Catholicism

will be conducted quietly and less brutally than against Jewry,

but no less systematically.

Before long, no Catholic will be able to hold office in Germany

unless he dedicates himself--unconditionally--to the new course of action.

I remain, at the feet of your Holiness, requesting your apostolic blessing.

Dr. Edith Stein, Carmelite nun and philosophy-professor, was locked in a gas-chamber with subjectively-labeled "miscreants." Her dual-crime was possessing Jewish-dNA and professing Catholicism. Within minutes, warm showerheads sprayed dust-clouds of prussic-acid powder-derivatives, causing immediate seizures, coma and suffocation. Or, in simpler terms, cyanide poisoning. Once gas was realized, St Edith and her sister Rose, most likely shouted prayers, using their last breath to praise God. As a prequel, please see Catholic365's story entitled Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. The blending of her 2 worlds, Jew and Christian, united-within her an absolute-coherence to seek Truth. She symbolizes beauty in a horrifying-period of history and is super-relevant in Israeli politics today. Her ultimate demise represents her journey through St Avila's "7 interior castles" to: a perfect-mystical union with God. Her phrase, "Love Conquers Fear," embodies her life's philosophy.

Economic Explosion. Most armed-service veterans agree that disciplined-soldiers are scienced in: almond-scented cyanide-gas, gas mask technologies and antidote-delivery systems for amyl nitrate and methylene blue. With all due respect to denial-debates, if zero holocaust-POW camps existed, please solve these conceptual and stepwise-puzzles?

• Without the scientific-contributions from these souls, explain the depth and breadth of knowledge-growth in biological-warfare during this era?
• What is the numerical probability that the above-listed industries, with tightly correlated-growth, could randomly-develop at a viral-speed, scale and scope?
• How were finely-tuned-processes developed without human-test subjects; for pharmacologic-antidotes, or chemicals-handling/protection and to rationalize unexplained-leaps in surgical and medical advancement?
• What alternate-theories explain the economic-explosion and the vast leadership-enjoyed ramifications; from the metastatic-expansion of chemical factories? How was this done without applied-science, laboratory-experimentation and R&D paper-trails?
• How do you reconcile the statistically-supported, annotated-writings of doctoratal-candidate Fraulein Edith Stein; without a holocaust-backdrop?

Remembering history, prevents Repeating. The gas in question, was prussic acid, also called ZYKLON-B (ZB). Today we know it as hydrogen-cyanic acid, a light substance with a lower-molecular weight of 27. ZB was a fine-powder, sprinkled-delousing agent. One day, a truck-loading-platoon of Polish-POWs began bucket-brigading, a leaky-sack stamped "ZB-Precursor: cyanide." As the ripped sack was tossed from man to man, an eerie dust cloud formulated. Long-story-short, no POWs or down-wind barrack-dwellers survived. Continued animal carcasses would be found for its 1-3-year half-life. Feedback from the clean-up crew would detail exact counts with written or photo evidence to prove their loyalty. Moreover, did this event suggest the means to solve their overcapacity problem? POW-trains and trucks were arriving too fast for mess and barracks-accommodations. For efficiency, proposed assembly-lines could collect valuables and belongings, while offering assurances: "We will keep them safe during your shower." The report probably-recommended containment, gas-concentration and cloistering POW-demises. Chambermen in gas masks could streamline the back-end process. Turnover is quickly-achieved due to: powder-vaporization at 78-degrees F yielding a 100% success rate in 1-3 minutes. It could be messy, but it was quick, bloodless and cheaper by the dozen. Gas chambers could be fitted with bulldozer-sized garage doors to scrape all remains upstream towards crematoriums. Fictionally-speaking, these after-action reports were prophetic. At the officers'-debriefing, demons encircled the leaders and cost/benefit-calculating accountants--who forever-sought elusive numbers to rule their godless-world. Later, as ovens were overwhelmed, hiding evidence became difficult. Quickly-created bulldozed-ditches enabled instant grave-digging and burial. 

Dachau, Germany: 1995 POW-camp. The words of our tour guide were captured in this journal. <begin journal entry>

"The usage quantities of Zyklon-B gas are as follows. <points to chambers>

• The 2-larger chambers attached to crematoriums#1 and 2, require 2-tins of ZB for each chamber. It was customary to put 1000 people in each one.
• The smaller chambers attached to crematoriums#3 and 4, required 1-tin per chamber. A cylindrical tin's diameter was 20-30 centimeters and about 50 centimeters tall. Smaller chambers required a longer kill-time of 3-5 minutes. The 2-smaller chambers, each held 500 prisoners.
• The gas was delivered by Red Cross' ambulances. Logistically, they were to arrive 5 minutes after the POWs marched into the chamber.
• We don't know where the cyanide was stored." 

<end of journal entry>

The Missing Link

• Why do certain U.S. states, use gas-chambers for judicially-sentenced executions? How do we know the logistics of cyanide-cloud-creation? How did we learn the physiology, physics and pharmacology; of correctly-titred vapor-dosing per body-mass, being piped into a single-chaired gas-chamber?
• Glucose has been suggested to counteract cyanide. Theories suggest it creates less-toxic, easier-to-eliminate metabolic-compounds. The cyanide-immunity enjoyed by Grigori Rasputin, priest to the Russian Romanov-dynasty, could be sugar-related. When his sweet pastries and dessert wines were poisoned--glucose neutralized the cyanide. Curious to see the chemisty, an AI-fact check for credible-cyanide studies yielded one. This is confusing. While yes, it confirmed the theory, it was in low-level, non-primate, mouse-models. Why only one? And why only mice?
• How do we reconcile today's vast cyanide-knowledge--without POW-camp learnings--if today's scientific-baselines involve limited, basic-level, mouse-model experimentation? Where are the connecting dots? 
• Through denial and AI-splicing, is God slowly-being removed from human History and Science? The above St Edith quote, perfectly-haunts today's attack on our Church: "This silence will not be able, in the long run, to purchase peace...For the time being, the fight against Catholicism will be conducted quietly and less brutally than against Jewry, but no less systematically." 

Impact. This professor and Carmelite nun was a brilliant philosopher, researcher, profound spiritual-writer and empathetic-influencer.

• She translated many of St Thomas of Aquinas' works into German. This elevates her to an informal expert in Dominican-inspired Theology.
• Her grad-school writings intersected both Phenomenology and Philosophy with Empathy. Coincidentally, Catholicism is based on empathetic-events with God and neighbor. God's plan for her was to follow the science to Him.
• Dr. Edith Stein read herself into our faith. Thanks to author-influencer St. Teresa of Avila, Edith became "Teresa Benedicta" upon realizing her vows. Her surname from St. John "of the Cross," was her daily reminder to willfully-suffer every time her Spouse asked.
• Sister Teresa's most famous book is, “The Science of the Cross,” which combines the mystical teachings of Sts John of the Cross and Teresa of Ávila.
• The Gestapo tracked and arrested Edith with biologic-little sister and fellow-nun Rose. In her award-willing movie, The Seventh Chamber,  when perp-walked to the Gestapo truck, both were poised, spiritually-ready and meticulously-dressed. Why? They were en-route to meet Christ, at the wedding-feast for His 2 newest Brides.

Though acts of courage may be difficult at the time-performed, the good fruit of such heroism lives on. St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross is remembered for her fiercely-loyal and assertive-spirit. Through her detailed-research, spiritual-translations and delicate-musings: she converts hungry-hearts today. Know that God calls us too, to this honorable-vocation. After God, our priority above all else, is to bring souls to God. Once our hearts ache to share Him, we are all-in for the Quest-of-all-quests. Nothing in life gives more glory to God: than rescuing a single-soul from sin. 

St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, pray for us.

Mother Mary, pray for us.

Jesus, we trust in you.

Sources: 

Cyanide Poisoning | Wikipedia

St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross: A Jewish convert to Catholicism and a martyr of the Catholic faith | catholic365.com

Movie: The Seventh Chamber (1996)

The Science of the Cross | archive.org