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Hitler's Pope - The Secret History of Pius XII (Paperback, New Ed)
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Hitler's Pope - The Secret History of Pius XII (Paperback, New Ed)
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Based on extensive research into hitherto secret Vatican and Jesuit
archives, this book conclusively shows that Pope Pius XII
(1939-58), currently a candidate for canonization by the Roman
Catholic church, was a secret anti-Semite who assisted Hitler's
rise to power and who later in private denied and trivialized the
Holocaust. The Pope, Eugenio Pacelli, a career church lawyer and
diplomat and sometime Papal Nuncio to Germany, devoted his entire
career, says John Cornwell, to creating a new ideology of Papal
power which he hoped one day to impose on the Catholic bishops. To
this end he cynically concluded an 'alliance with the Devil' - a
secret treaty with Hitler under which Germany's 23 million
Catholics, the largest and most powerful Catholic community in the
world at the time, were to be instructed by Rome to withdraw from
political opposition to Hitler in return for Hitler agreeing to the
Pope's right to impose Canon Law on German Catholics. As if that
were not enough, Pacelli also secretly got the Catholic Centre
party in Germany to vote for the Enabling Act giving Hitler
absolute power in 1933. These moves took place in the full
knowledge of how they would jeopardize the eventual survival of the
German Jews and go far to explain Pacelli's long and hitherto
puzzling silence about the Holocaust despite the huge influence
that he wielded as Pope during the war years. This damning
indictment of so prominent a figure is a serious embarrassment to
the Roman Catholic church and will, says the author, himself a
devoted Catholic, profoundly affect the power struggle that is
going on in the church today between reactionaries and liberals.
Recommended. (Kirkus UK)
This hugely controversial, bestselling history tells the story of Eugenio Pacelli, the man who was Pope Pius XII, and arguably the most dangerous churchman of modern times. As Vatican Secretary of State, Pacelli signed an agreement with Hitler in 1933 that protected the power of the Catholic Church in exchange for their complete withdrawal from politics. This act proved fatal. When he became Pope Pius XII, he continually refused to publicly condemn the Nazis - even though he was one of the first European leaders to be made aware of the Final Solution. And even when Italian Jews were rounded up under the walls of the Vatican and transported to the death camps. His failure to criticize Nazism, especially when seen in the light of his patent anti-Semitism, is one of the great scandals of wartime. Using a wealth of new material, including Vatican documents, John Cornwell makes a firm and final indictment of Hitler's Pope's silence.
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