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By John Cornwell (© 1999)
Read by David Case
2000 Books on Tape, Inc.
Unabridged
Non-Fiction > Biography & Autobiography

This highly controversial book alleges that Pius XII, Pope during WW II, was a willing dupe for the Nazis.

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HITLER’S POPE is the previously untold story of the man who was arguably the most dangerous churchman in history: Eugenio Pacelli. Pious XII, pontiff from 1939 to 1958 and long controversial as the Pope who failed to speak out against Hitler’s Final Solution. Here is the full story of how Pacelli in fact prompted events in the 1920s and 30s that helped sweep the Nazis to unhindered power.
In the first decade of the twentieth century Pacelli was a brilliant Vatican lawyer who helped shape a new ideology of unprecedented papal power. As papal nuncio in Munich in the 1920s , he used cunning and moral blackmail to impose Rome’s power on Germany. In 1933, he negotiated a treaty with Hitler, the Reich Concordat, which ensured that the Nazis would rise unopposed by the most powerful Catholic community in the world–sealing, by Hitler’s own admission–the fate of the Jews in Europe. Until now, historians have only focused on one episode and one issue regarding Pius XII: his silence during the Holocaust. But John Cornwall documents how Pius’s wartime reticence was consistent with a career dedicated to enhancing papal power and that he had a personal antipathy toward the Jews–for which Cornwall offers striking new evidence.
Drawing on research from secret Vatican and Jesuit archives made available only to the author, this is a firm and final indictment of Pius XII’s papacy and its consequences for the Catholic Church today.

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