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Article: Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy.(Review)
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- The Christian Century
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- October 10, 2001
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Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy. By Susan Zuccotti. Yale University Press, 352 pp., $29.00.
CONTROVERSY ABOUT the role of the Vatican and Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust has raged ever since Rolf Hochhuth's play The Deputy was first performed in 1965, but the debate has intensified in recent years. Since 1965 the Vatican has published 11 volumes of selected archival material from the Nazi era--but these volumes omitted some relevant documents. Last fall, a commission of six historians (three Catholics and three Jews) concluded their examination of these books with a detailed and well-grounded plea for scholarly access to the rest ...
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