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History Unplugged Podcast

Did Pope Pius XII Collaborate With the Nazis? This Historian Viewed the Vatican Archives and Has the Answer

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

One of the biggest unresolved World War 2 debates is the Vatican’s complicity in the Holocaust – did Pope Pius XII sit back and do nothing as Nazi Germany exterminate 6 million Jews? Critics accuse him of a weakness for dictatorships and a distaste...

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One of the unresolved debates about World War II is whether or not the Catholic Church was complicit in Nazi Germany's persecution of the Jews,

1:56.5

because although the church knew what was going on, it's not back and did nothing.

2:00.0

Critics of the Pope at the time, Pius XII, accused him of a weakness for dictatorships, looking up to Mussolini, for example,

2:07.0

and a distaste for Jews, highlighting his decision to remain silent as 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.

2:12.5

They say that Hitler and Mussolini found him all too easy to intimidate, and he embraced real politic over principle.

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But defenders of Pope Pius XI say that he was a man of great virtue.

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