Pope Pius XII

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• SOURCE: TIME
  4/17/2023
  

  New Revelations about Catholic Action (and Inaction) During the Holocaust

  Suzanne Brown-Fleming leads the Vatican Archives Initiative for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and hopes that unsealed documents will reveal more about the motives behind the Vatican's ambivalent actions. 

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• 1/22/2023
  

  The Pope at War: Pius XII and the Vatican's Secret Archives

  by James Thornton Harris

  David Kertzer's book argues that defenders of Pope Pius XII's actions during the Holocaust mistake his defense of the prerogatives of the Catholic Church for a defense of the victims of Nazi persecution and genocide. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/31/2022
  

  The Back Channel Between Pius XII and Hitler

  by David I. Kertzer

  The Vatican has only just now released documents about secret and sensitive negotiations between the Nazi leader and the Holy See, in which the Vatican agreed to temper criticisms of Nazism's pagan elements in exchange for ceasing investigation of sex crimes by priests.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/27/2020
  

  The Pope, the Jews, and the Secrets in the Archives

  by David I. Kerzer

  Newly available Vatican documents, reported here for the first time, offer fresh insights into larger questions of how the Vatican thought about and reacted to the mass murder of Europe’s Jews, and into the Vatican’s mindset immediately after the war about the Holocaust, the Jewish people, and the Roman Catholic Church’s role and prerogatives as an institution.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/28/2020
  

  Unsealed Archives Give Fresh Clues to Pope Pius XII’s Response to the Holocaust

  Reports by historian David Kertzer that documents in the Vatican archives reflect on the antisemitism of Pope Pius XII and his advisors have sparked countercharges by church historians that reports based on newly available sources will give priority to sensational findings. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/29/2020
  

  Records From Once-Secret Archive Offer New Clues Into Vatican Response To Holocaust

  Historian David Kertzer has published work based on newly available documents from the Vatican's archives, which suggests Pope Pius XII was motivated by political concerns to accept persecution of Europe's Jews and obstructed the reuniting of Jewish orphans with their families after the war.

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• 5/17/2020
  

  What the New Evidence on Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust Means

  by Rafael Medoff

  In the end, whatever their respective reasons, the Pope and the president both opted to look away from the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time.

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• SOURCE: National Catholic Register
  5/1/2020
  

  Pope Pius XII Detractor Cries Wolf

  German historian and Catholic Priest Father Hubert Wolf has claimed that recently opened Vatican documents show Pope Pius XII was complicit with Nazi atrocities. Other Church historians dispute the novelty or veracity of his evidence.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/29/2020
  

  Pope Pius XII, Accused of Silence During the Holocaust, Knew Jews Were Being Killed, Researcher Says

  A team of resesarchers led by Hubert Wolf discovered documents suggesting Pope Pius XII knew at an early stage of the Nazi efforts at genocide, concealed those facts from the United States government and others, and concealed documents to protect the Church's image.

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• SOURCE: Mental Floss
  11-5-15
  

  When the Pope Ordered the Death of Adolf Hitler

  by David Brown

  Pope Pius XII resolved to do whatever he could to have Hitler killed.

• SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
  4-18-13
  

  Francis to 'open files on Hitler's Pope'

  Rabbi Abraham Skorka, who has known the Argentine former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio for 20 years, said he had discussed the role of Pius XII – the man long dubbed as "Hitler's Pope" – at length with the new pontiff.The Rabbi, who recently co-authored On Heaven and Earth, a book of interviews with his friend, said he had made clear that he thought Pius's legacy ought to be "investigated thoroughly"."It's a terribly sensitive issue, but he says that it must be investigated thoroughly," he said. "I have no doubt that he will move to open the archives."...