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Exclusive: how Pope Pius XII resisted the Nazis

2020-09-25T04:12:23.269Z


In a book-event based on thousands of unpublished documents, Vatican archivist Johan Ickx reveals the extent of the Holy See's activity on behalf of Jews during World War II. He gave an exceptional interview to Figaro Magazine.


It is a book that will stand out.

And controversy?

Given what we discover there, against the ideological doxa for more than half a century, there is little doubt.

Contaminated by a play staged in 1963 by the Soviet propaganda services (

The Vicar,

by Rolf Hochhuth, adapted for cinema by Costa-Gavras, under the title

Amen

), official historiography takes for granted that Pope Pius XII s he is walled in guilty silence over the Nazi horror of WWII.

Although informed of the extent of the anti-Jewish persecutions, he would not have made any protest or made any gesture to mitigate, condemn or prevent them.

In short, he would have been its accomplice.

Read also:

Pius XII, the real reasons for a false trial

So many false "truths" that the head of the Historical Archives of the Vatican secretariat, Johan Ickx, powerfully sweeps away based on unpublished documents.

Archives declassified by order of Pope Francis in March 2020 and on which he is the only one to have

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Source: lefigaro

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