https://www.jwire.com.au/the-vatican-opens-its-wartime-archive/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Mon, 02 Mar 2020 19:04:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.jwire.com.au/the-vatican-opens-its-wartime-archive/#comment-482839 Mon, 02 Mar 2020 19:04:45 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=109670#comment-482839 A relevant book on the subject is The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany by Guenter Lewy, published by McGraw-Hill in 1965. From the book’s back cover: “Guenter Lewy demonstrates the German Catholic Church’s sympathy with some of the goals of National Socialism and its gradual entrapment in Nazi policies and programs. He describes the support of Hitler’s expansionist policies by the episcopate and its failures to speak out on the persecution of the Jews or to encourage resistance”.

]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/the-vatican-opens-its-wartime-archive/#comment-482800 Mon, 02 Mar 2020 14:58:53 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=109670#comment-482800 If the Vatican is opening its archives concerning its behaviour during WWII, one can be sure that it has thoroughly de-nazified the archives, and nothing will be found that the Vatican would not wish to be found. The Vatican had 15 years to de-nazify the archives, and no doubt it did an excellent job.

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