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Illustration by Cristiana Couceiro. Sources: Ullstein / Getty; … The Pope’s Secret Back Channel to Hitler
Newly revealed Vatican documents uncover a long-held secret: As war broke out, Pius XII used a Nazi prince to negotiate with Adolf Hitler.
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Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic The Pope, the Jews, and the Secrets in the Archives
Documents reveal the private discussions behind both Pope Pius XII’s silence about the Nazi deportation of Rome’s Jews in 1943 and the Vatican’s postwar support for the kidnapping of two Jewish boys whose parents had perished in the Holocaust.
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Vatican Media / Reuters What the Vatican’s Secret Archives Are About to Reveal
Documents from the papacy of Pius XII may settle some long-debated questions.
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Luigi Felici / AP The Secrets That Might Be Hiding in the Vatican’s Archives
After decades of controversy, Pope Francis has announced that he will open the records of Pius XII’s papacy to researchers—along with other restricted Church holdings.
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James Baillie / Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters / … The Doctored 'Memoir' of a Jewish Boy Kidnapped by the Vatican
Edgardo Mortara’s autobiography is roiling Catholic-Jewish relations—based on the false assumption that the text is accurate.
