From Sotto Voce:Did he do all that he could have done, all that he should have done?
Controversy over the conduct of Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust has raged for over 40 years.
Pius's once sterling reputation for having done what he could behind the scenes for persecuted Jews first came under sustained attack in 1963, when Rolf Hochhuth's play The Deputy cast his failure to publicly denounce the Nazi genocide in an anti-Semitic light.
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Would German Catholics have stopped the entire genocide machine in its tracks, or would open enmity have simply caused the Nazis to turn their murderous impulses on the Vatican or on Catholics in general, while doing nothing for Jews?
An interesting post follows.
Labels: history, Vatican
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