Vatican documents show secret back channel between Pope Pius XII and Adolph Hitler

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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/vatican-documents-show-secret-back-channel-between-pope-pius-xii-and-adolph-hitler

(Video, transcript at link)

Vatican documents show secret back channel between Pope Pius XII and Adolph Hitler

Jun 7, 2022 6:35 PM EDT

A series of recently opened Vatican archives are shedding new light on the relationship between Pope Pius XII and Adolph Hitler as he led Nazi Germany during World War II. A new book takes a deeper look at these revelations. Historian David Kertzer, author of “The Pope At War: The Secret History of Pope Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler,” joins Amna Nawaz to discuss.

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[hlthe2b]

1. Ugggh. Just ugggh.

So many simply horrid Popes, yet Francis, who is actually trying to enact some change is demonized by so many... Sigh....

[Zambero]

2. The Church's own Neville Chamberlain

He refused to stand up to the Nazi's and the genocidal plan to liquidate Europe's Jewish population. Instead, for the "good of the Church", he sought to co-exist with them, even though it meant certain death for many. Saint or cowardly scumbag? Anyone in a position of authority who would pursue the former should be required to tour Auschwitz.

[Botany]

3. Kind of like Vlad Putin setting up a secret back channel communication link with Trump through ...

.... the Alfa Bank.

https://www.salon.com/2017/03/10/trumps-alleged-computer-server-connection-with-a-russian-bank-continues-to-be-investigated/

[niyad]

4. This is not a new discovery. I was reading about it in the '60's. Got into a

huge argument with my devoutly catholic parents when I pointed it out.

[modrepub]

5. Pius Is Above All A Conservative

He probably had more of an inroads with the Facists and Nazis than he thought. Italy being mainly Catholic and Hitler (through his mother) and parts of Germany significantly Catholic. That he didn't push this relationship to actually change what happened to Jews and any other Nazi opponents in Europe is the big problem in my mind.

It seems he was more interested in maintaining the Church (its peoples and properties) than arguing for respect for all people, including people of other (or no) faiths. And I guess that's the larger tragedy of all of this, he could have (given his potential religious relationship with both Hitler and Mussolini) and should have done more.

[Midnight Writer]

6. Another "conspiracy theory" proven true.