Did Pope Pius XII lie to the U.S. about the Shoah?
A German research team investigating Pope Pius XII claim they have evidence he withheld evidence of the Holocaust from the U.S. government.
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A German research team investigating Pope Pius XII claim they have evidence he withheld evidence of the Holocaust from the U.S. government.
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, On November 1, 2005, the 42 nd plenary session of the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 60/7, designating January 27 as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 60 years earlier, on January 27, 1945, the Red Army liberated the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the larges...
Pope Pius XII is pictured at the Vatican in a file photo dated March 15, 1949. (CNS file photo) Church history is a very strange phenomenon. It does not matter whether your academic position classifies you as an historian. If you are a Christian you risk having the label “apologist” put on your work, if you defend any aspect of Christian history—no matter how compelling and unassailable the evidence you advance. Conversely, if you are not regarded as an “apologist,” a glaze of impartiality protects you, even if your research is shallow and simplistic, hiding many errors, omissions ...