Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction

1. Eugenio Pacelli: 1900 to 1942
2. The Genocides of Polish Catholics and Polish Jews
3. Pius XII's 1942 Christmas Message: Genocide Decried
4. 1943: Pius XII Reverses Course
5. Papal Capitalism during World War II
6. The First Cold War Warrior
7. The Origin of the Vatican Ratlines
8. Bishop Hudal's Ratline
9. Looted Gold and the Vatican
10. Ante Pavelic: War Criminal, Murderer, and Defender of the Faith
11. The Biggest Ratline
12. An Obsession with Communism

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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A riveting account of the controversial actions of Pius XII and the Vatican during Europe's darkest years

About the Author

Michael Phayer, a recognized authority on the Catholic Church and the Holocaust, is Emeritus Professor of History at Marquette University and the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Holocaust Studies at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. He is author of The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965 (IUP, 2000). He lives in Columbia, Maryland.

Reviews

"Diligently researched and documented, judicious in its conclusions,... compassionate and humane in its outlook." Richard L. Rubenstein, author of After Auschwitz: History, Theology, and Contemporary Judaism