Documents the controversial relationship between the Catholic Church and the Nazis, citing how a communist-wary Vatican maintained a policy of non-interference in Nazi persecutions and withheld crucial information about Nazi activities.
Now available in English for the first time, a controversial work that indicts the Vatican for its actions before and during World War II. In the decade preceding the outbreak of World War II, the Vatican made a devil's bargain with fascist leaders. Anticipating that their regim…
In the decade preceding the outbreak of World War II, the Vatican made a devil's bargain with fascist leaders. Anticipating that their regimes would eliminate a common enemy-- Marxist-Leninist communism-- two popes essentially collaborated with Hitler, Mussolini, Franco in Spain…
"In den turbulenten Jahren von 1917 bis 1929 berichtete Eugenio Pacelli, der spätere Papst Pius XII., fast täglich als Nuntius aus Deutschland: über Revolutionen und Goldene Zwanziger, Kirche und Politik, Kommunisten, Nationalsozialisten und Katholiken. Pacelli agierte für eine…