Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140296271
ISBN-13: 9780140296273
Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, has long been the subject of controversy over his failure to speak out against Hitler’s Final Solution. In Hitler’s Pope, award-winning journalist and Roman Catholic John Cornwell shows that, even well before the Holocaust, Pope Pius XII was instrumental in negotiating an accord that helped the Nazis rise to unhindered power--and sealed the fate of the Jews in Europe.Drawing upon secret Vatican and Jesuit archives to which he had exclusive access, Cornwell tells the full, tragic story of how narcissism, longstanding personal antipathy for the Jews, a...