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.
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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that the head of the Historical Archives of the Vatican secretariat, Johan Ickx, powerfully sweeps away based on unpublished documents.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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