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Hide and Seek - The Irish Priest in the Vatican Who Defied the Nazi Command. the Dramatic True Story of Rivalry and Survival During WWII. (Paperback)
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Hide and Seek - The Irish Priest in the Vatican Who Defied the Nazi Command. the Dramatic True Story of Rivalry and Survival During WWII. (Paperback)
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Irish Sunday Times Bestseller A true story of war, peace and
friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priest The story begins in
Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS
Obersturmbanfuhrer, and Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty would become
adversaries in a real-life game of 'cat and mouse' of epic
proportions. Hide and Seek chronicles the intimate and intensely
personal war between them. A fiercely fought rivalry that would
culminate in failed attempts by Kappler to kidnap and then murder
his Irish opponent. In July 1943 Rome was bombed for the first time
during the war. As the swastika flew above the city, it was a time
of fear, and a moment of choice: collaborate and compromise, or
resist and revolt. O'Flaherty decided to quietly resist and fight
the new rulers. Dubbed 'Ireland's Oscar Schindler', he masterminded
a large-scale operation from within the Vatican, to help Jews and
escaped Allied prisoners on the run from the Nazis. He used a
series of safe houses and church buildings and sheltered around 500
Jews in the Holy See, and it is believed that sanctuary was found
for some 4000 Jews across Rome, and 4000 Allied escapees. After the
Resistance killed 32 German soldiers in a bombing, Hitler was
enraged, and declared that he wanted a revenge attack to "make the
world tremble". He instructed Kappler to draw up plans. Eventually,
335 people would be executed in the Ardeatine Caves, a labyrinth of
tunnels outside the city. The massacre would become the worst
atrocity committed on Italian soil during WWII. Kappler's handiwork
would remain secret until Rome was liberated by the Allies in June
1944. The Nazi Colonel was found guilty on all the charges relating
to the caves massacre. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with
no parole. Amazingly, O'Flaherty would continue his relationship
with Kappler, going to see his former rival in prison. The
discussions of the two men would become intense and searching, and
a friendship grew between them. In later life, after much
soul-searching Kappler became a Catholic, and was baptised by the
Irish Monsignor.
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