A book accusing Pius XII of being 'Hitler's Pope' overestimates the pontiff's influence and underestimates his character. Lawrence Osborne reviews John Cornwell's 'Hitler's Pope.' In Salon.
Article points out that accusing Pope Pius XII of being indifferent to the Holocaust is a recent development based on fiction. At the time and immediately afterwards, the press and persecuted Jews hailed the Vatican as the one beacon in a darkened Europe.
Reviewer James Carroll expounds the argument of John Cornwell's book 'Hitler's Pope': that Pius XII was anti-Semitic and power-hungry. In the October 1999 issue of The Atlantic.
Article by Kenneth Woodward, published in Newsweek, 30 March, 1998. Pius was neither silent nor inactive about the Holocaust. In fact, during the Second World War, he was lauded for his singular efforts to halt the carnage.
Article by Pierre Blet, one of the team of researchers who compiled the 11-volume set of Vatican documents related to World War II. These documents show that it is a baldfaced lie to assert that Pius condoned Nazism.
It is telling that the Nazis regarded Pacelli as anti-Nazi, and that Jewish sources give voluminous testimony about Pius XII's efforts on behalf of Jews. Personal page lists many books, reviews, articles, and Internet sites on the topic.
