Subject on the reopening of the archives of the pontificate of Pius XII, this March 2
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The pontificate of the Italian, born in 1876 under the name of Eugenio Pacelli, took place from 1939 to 1958. The current Pope Francis announced the decision to open these archives a year ago, in the hope that this will wash the name of the person concerned from accusations that he did not oppose Nazi Germany in the persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust. At the beginning of March, the documents kept in the Apostolic Archives were made available.
September 1942
Researchers wonder why Pius XII did not protest more clearly against the persecution of the Jews. German Church historians now claim, in Die Zeit, that in September 1942, his collaborators delivered a letter to the pope of the American envoy to the Vatican, Myron Charles Taylor. This letter mentions the murder of the Jews in Nazi Germany.
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If this mail was already known, the German researchers however demonstrated that Pie XII saw it. The letter mentions, among other things, the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Jews to German concentration camps, mass executions and massacres in eastern Poland. American President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted, via this letter, to inform the pontiff and persuade him to protest publicly. “It is only now that it is clear that the Pope has had a personal glimpse of the letter“, can we read in the article”The Pope, he knew and kept silent“from Die Zeit.
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The subject had inspired Costa-Gavras for his film “Amen”, in 2002
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