Some have even said that the pope was complicit in Hitler's grab for power, privately fueled by a hatred for the Jewish people. Saving thousands upon thousands of lives, Pius demonstrated such courage and compassion in these times that Jewish leaders across the globe praised him, and the ecumenical Pave the Way Foundation has since nominated him for the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum's Righteous among the Nations award. Archival and archaeological researcher Michael Hesemann has unearthed thousands of documents—including from the Vatican Secret Archives (or the Vatican Apostolic Archive), only recently opened to scholars—to give a startling picture of Eugenio Pacelli as a shrewd diplomat and a champion of the Jewish people during World War II. Even some of his most controversial moves, such as the 1933 Vatican concordat, were made to protect Jewish and Christian lives. But what if this image of Pius XII is completely backward? As Pope Pius himself remarked in 1938, "It is not legitimate for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. And if they are right, who would not join in condemning a leader like this, especially one who claims to represent all Christians? What emerges clearly from Hesemann's evidence is a portrait of a man radically committed to the Jews and the revelation God gave to them. Spiritually, we are all Semites." Historically researched Incredibly sourced and documented Startling revelations about Pope Pius XII Champion of the Jewish people during the Holocaust Inspirational reading about a Catholic hero of our time</u Author: Michael Hesemann Pages: 459 Format: Paperback For over two decades, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, has been blasted in the public square as "Hitler's Pope", accused by bestselling authors of cowardice in the face of the Nazi regime. The Pope and the Holocaust traces Pacelli's fight for peace in the 1930s and 1940s, including his years as apostolic nuncio in Germany, where he resisted Nazism.
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