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Pius XII, the Holocaust, and the Cold War

Pius XII, the Holocaust, and the Cold War

Phayer, Michael

Hardcover

General ChristianityHolocaustWorld War II

ISBN10: 0253349303
ISBN13: 9780253349309
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: Dec 1 2007
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.53
Height: 1.17 Width: 6.58 Depth: 9.34
Language: English

Using newly available material from the U.S. National Archives, Michael Phayer sheds new light on the actions of the Vatican and of the man whom some have mistakenly called Hitler's Pope. As a new world war loomed, the Vatican believed it had to make a choice between communism and Nazism. Reluctantly, both Pius XII and his predecessor chose the Nazis as the lesser of two evils. In the balance rested the genocide of European Jews. As difficult as his wartime behavior is to accept, perhaps nothing demonstrates Pius's fear of communism more than his misguided and unethical attempt to thwart its growth in South America by abetting the escape of Nazis and Ustasi war criminals. The story of these Vatican ratlines adds another facet to the complex picture of Pius XII and the Holocaust.

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