HITLER'S POPE: THE SECRET HISTORY OF PIUS XII

Author: John Cornwell

Publisher: Penguin Books

Year published: 2000

Pagination: 430pp illustrations

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Mass market paperback. Covers creased, text clean. This biography discusses Pope Pius XIII's wartime silence over the Holocaust, and exposes the patent anti-Semitism that led to his fateful concordance with Hitler. In examining Eugenio Pacelli's early career and subsequent rise to papal apotheosis, the author firmly indicts a Pope whom many regard as the most powerful churchman in modern history; one never held to account for the conduct of himself or his church during one of humanity's darkest hours.