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Article: The demise of the Catholic-Jewish historical comission.(probe of Pope Pius XII's inaction during Holocaust)
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- December 1, 2001
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The controversy over Pope Pius XII never seems to die out. Was he "Hitler's Pope" and an antisemite to boot, as the British historian John Cornwell has claimed, or a hero and a saint worthy of the beatification that his admirers have long advocated? Frankly, I do not believe in either the sanctification or demonization of this complex, tortured, enigmatic, and intriguing personality. In my new book, Hitler and the Holocaust, I try to place Pius's actions and his inaction -- in notorious "silence" about the Holocaust of European Jewry -- in a broader context. His failure of imagination, of political insight into Nazism, and his relative indifference to or complicity with ...
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