Con Dio e con il führer. La politica dei papi durante il nazionalsocialismo
by Karlheinz Deschner
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Describes the attempts of the Vatican under Popes Pius XI and Pius XII to conciliate Hitler, and their support for him in what they saw as a struggle against the common enemy - communism. This policy implied maintaining silence on atrocities, including the persecution and extermination of the Jews. Asserts that Pius XII, with his international connections and excellent information network, was well informed. In Germany, the Church protested only against infringements on its own rights. In show more Austria, virulent Catholic antisemitism had prepared the ground for Nazism. Some Catholic leaders in France approved of the Vichy anti-Jewish laws. The Catholic puppet regime in Slovakia cooperated with the Nazis in persecution of the Jews. The Pope himself never attempted to intervene on behalf of the Jews, even when over 1,000 Jews were deported from Rome in 1943. show lessTags
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Karlheinz Deschner is the author or editor of forty-six books including novels, literary criticism, essays, aphorisms, and, above all, critical history of religion and the church. He is best known for his multivolume Criminal History of Christianity, the tenth volume of which was published in March 2013. He has enthralled and provoked his show more audiences over the years with more than two thousand public lectures. In 1971 he was called before a court in Nuremberg, charged with "insulting the Church." He is the first German to be recognized with the International Humanist Award. Among his other awards are the Arno Schmidt, Alternative Bchner, Erwin Fischer, and Ludwig Feuerbach Prizes. Learn more at www.deschner.info. show less
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