![]() ![]() James Baillie / Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters / … The Secrets That Might Be Hiding in the Vatican’s ArchivesĪfter 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. What the Vatican’s Secret Archives Are About to Revealĭocuments from the papacy of Pius XII may settle some long-debated questions. The Pope, the Jews, and the Secrets in the Archivesĭocuments 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. Newly revealed Vatican documents uncover a long-held secret: As war broke out, Pius XII used a Nazi prince to negotiate with Adolf Hitler. Kertzer was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe. Kertzer is the author of the forthcoming book The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler. ![]()
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