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The Pope's Jews: The Vatican's Secret Plan To Save Jews from the Nazis
By Thomas, Gordon
- ISBN
- 9780312604219
- Publisher
- Thomas Dunne: St. Martin's
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Reviewed on August 1, 2012 | Social Sciences
The Vatican's "strategy of silence" during World War II has been debated for over half a century. Did Pope Pius XII do enough to assist Europe's Jews during the Holocaust? Thomas (Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad) offers evidence, based on primary sources (albeit with no endnotes) that the pope did work to protect the Jews, but did so with his clergy in secret, ultimately saving well over 700,000 Jews. Although he was venerated by Jewish leaders, e....Log In or Sign Up to Read More
