Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
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Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
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The papacy of Pius XII began on 2 March 1939 and continued to 9 October 1958, covering the period of the Second World War and the Holocaust, during which millions of Jews were murdered by Adolf Hitler's Germany. Before becoming pope, Cardinal Pacelli served as a Vatican diplomat in Germany and as Vatican Secretary of State under Pius XI. His role during the Nazi period has been closely scrutinised and criticised. His supporters argue that Pius employed diplomacy to aid the victims of the Nazis d
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XII_and_the_Holocaust
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2009-07-03T08:43:00Z
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2024-09-04T00:00:04Z
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