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The Pope and the Holocaust: Pius XII and the Secret Vatican Archives
Category: Books > Biographies > Biographies
Author/Artist: MICHAEL HESEMANN
ISBN / ID: 9781621643739
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: AU$39.95
  
Description: Archival and archaeological researcher Michael Hesemann has unearthed documents, including from the Vatican Apostolic Archive, only recently opened to scholars, to give a picture of Eugenio Pacelli as a shrewd diplomat and a champion of the Jewish people during World War II. Saving thousands of lives, Pius demonstrated courage and compassion in these times that Jewish leaders across the globe praised him, and the ecumenical Pave the Way Foundation has since nominated him for the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum's Righteous among the Nations award.

The author traces Pacelli's fight for peace in the 1930s and 1940s, including his years as Apostolic Nuncio in Germany, where he resisted Nazism. Some of his most controversial moves, such as the 1933 Vatican concordat, were made to protect Jewish and Christian lives.

What emerges clearly from Hesemann's evidence is a portrait of a man radically committed to the Jews and the revelation God gave to them.
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