Israeli Cabinet Minister Ignites Debate Over Pope Pius's Holocaust Actions
Once he became pope, taking the name of his immediate predecessor, Pius XI, who had consistently denounced Nazi doctrines and attitudes, Pius XII does appear to have made an effort to quietly save victims of the Holocaust. Correspondence on Vatican letterhead in 1940 indicates that Pius asked members of the clergy to do whatever they could to help interned Jews. Newly discovered documents in British government archives reveal that Pius may even have been active in plots to overthrow Hitler. The diaries of Adolf Eichmann, the SS officer widely considered to have been the architect of the Holocaust, demonstrate that many in the SS thought the Vatican was attempting to hamper their deportation efforts.
Some Jewish refugees, for their part, have long insisted that the pope's low-profile response to the Holocaust was in their best interests. "None of us wanted the pope to take an open stand. We were all fugitives, and fugitives do not wish to be pointed at," wrote one Jewish couple that escaped from Berlin to Spain with Pius's help. "If the pope had protested, Rome would have become the center of attention. It was better that the pope said nothing. We all shared this opinion at the time, and this is still our conviction today." According to some groups' estimates, the Roman Catholic Church saved more than 800,000 Jews during the war.
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In CATHOLIC Italy, thousands of catholic Italians greeted the Nazi armies with~~ parades, flowers, dancing, and smiles ...
................. THE NAZIS WERE THEIR GREAT DEFENDERS ...
/..................... At 5.30 am on October 16, 1943, a forty-four man SS unit under the command of SS Captain Theodor Dannecker, rounded up 1,259 Jews in Rome.
ONLY the.... baptized AND CONVERTED JEWS were released. BY REQUEST OF THE POPE
what a sick scene IN hells visions OF PERVERSITY THAT CATHOLICS HAVE TRIED TO OBSCURE THE FACTS.....
The other 1,041 were put on a train to Auschwitz to be murdered SIMPLY for NOT BEING CATHOLIC ....
and at war's end only fifteen survived to return home to the UN-Holy
& UN-GODLY City OF ROME.~~~~~THE GATES OF HELL
The majority of Jews who survived in Italy were saved by the Italian people themselves who DID NOTHING TO RISK THEIR LIVES ....
THE JEWS WERE WEALTHY, EDUCATED AND THE BRAINS AND BACKBONE OF THIS SICK SATANIC FILTHY CATHOLIC COUNTRY..
WITH italy LOOSING THE WAR...AND GERMANY LOOSING AS WELL....THE AMERICANS WERE GETTING CLOSER..
SO CATHOLIC ITALIANS MURDERED THE JEWS THEY DID NOT NEED....AND SAVED ALIVE THE CATHOLIC JEWS WHO CONVERTED, AND WHO HAD SKILLS
22000 US Military soldiers were butchered and died, trying to reach Satans Gates at Rome and overtake the UN Godly country of Italy....and Rome......
CATHOLIC ITALY WAS MORE WORRIED ABOUT THE U.S. TROOPS distroying their satanic churches ....than they were about fighting off the Americans.....BUT NAZI AND ITALIAN TROOPS BUNKERED DOWN IN monasteries AND CHURCHES DEMANDING THE USA NOT ATTACK
HOW SICKENING
Italian newspapers and Catholic church officals have tried their best to hide their bloody, evil and filthy acts..
BUT THE FACT REMAINS.......UNTIL ITALY SURRENDERED ...AND STOPPED HELPING CATHOLIC HITLER......by ITALY .....continueing
to attack AFRICA, GREECE & THE RUSSIA ........NO JEWS WERE SAFE....BUT LIVED IN FEAR...AND SUBMITION TO THE
SATANIC CATHOLIC HOARDS OF ITALY......
MAY GOD REWARD THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OF LUCIFER / ALLAH~FOR DRAGING ITALIANS.....INTO WW 2.....AND
PROPPING UP and funding HITLER .
HITLER....THE BEST CATHOLIC OF THE 20 TH CENTURY....MAY HE ROTT IN CATHOLICISMS....STENCH
REXTERALIZER
Catholic religion is everything Christ was against. Man's religion and has nothing to do with God Almighty.
Long live Israel and the Jews!
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