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Article: LETTERS.(Letter to the Editor)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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Hitler's pope?
JOHN T. Pawlikowski's review of John Cornwall's Hitler's Pope is a slur against a significant and thoughtful work of scholarship ("Pope Pius VII and the Nazis," Feb. 23).
Pawlikowski argues that the title Hitler's Pope is deceptive in implying that Pius was an agent of the Nazis. Nowhere does Cornwall suggest any such thing. The point he makes in the title and throughout the book is simply that the posture that Pius assumed vis-a-vis the Nazi state was an ideal one from Hitler's political perspective, and the best that Hitler reasonably could have hoped for from a pope.
Pawlikowski argues that the cover photo on the dust jacket of ...