Pope Pius XII. Controversy

From Foreign Policy Dot Com:


Why Did the Pope Keep Quiet About Hitler?


"How much did the Catholic Church hierarchy know about Hitler's oppression of the Jews as it was
happening? And why didn't it speak up? With the opening of the Vatican
archives from the pre-World War II years, we can finally explore these heated
questions -- and German historian Hubert Wolf has dug through the files to find
damning evidence that Pope Pius XII, known to critics as "Hitler's pope," made a
conscious decision to pass on the issue, leaving it up to his bishops in
Germany to protect the Jews and Catholics who were being persecuted.
Even when directly confronted with the growing enormity of the situation, as in
this story of a German bishop who did stand up for his morals, the pope avoided public action."


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