Pope and Devil - The Vatican''s Archives and the Third Reich

Informationen zum Autor Hubert Wolf is Professor of Church History at the University of Münster. Klappentext In rich detail, Wolf presents astonishing findings from the recently opened Vatican archives--discoveries that clarify the relations between National Socialism and the Vatican. He illuminates the thinking of the popes, cardinals, and bishops who saw themselves in a historic struggle against evil. --from publisher description Zusammenfassung Explains why a philo-Semitic association was dissolved even as anti-Semitism was condemned! how the Vatican concluded a concordat with the Third Reich in 1933! why Hitler's "Mein Kampf" was never proscribed by the Church! and what factors surrounded the Pope's silence on the persecution of the Jews.

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• Authors: Hubert Wolf, Wolf Hubert
• Assisted by: Kenneth Kronenberg (Translation), Kronenberg Kenneth (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2012
• EAN: 9780674064263
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06426-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Europe, RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)