Worked backstage to save Jews — Vatican on Pope Pius XII
Pope Pius XII, who led the Catholic Church during World War II, is accused of silencing the events of the Holocaust. The Vatican first opened archival data.
A year ago, the current Pope Francis decided to unveil the archives of the Vatican. First of all, this concerns the activities of Pope Pius XII, who headed the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958, transmits to the BBC.
According to the Prefect of the Vatican Secret Archive, Sergio Pagano, the documents of the Second World War are presented on millions of pages and are divided into 121 parts.
Work with these classified materials has already been booked a year in advance. In particular, they plan to study the staff of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the German historian Hubert Wolf.
It is reported that before becoming Pope, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli observed how Nazism grew in the 1920s. He was repeatedly sent messages about the Nazi camps. But historians did not see the answers to them.
The Vatican rejects all charges against Pope Pius XII. They claim that the head of the church "worked behind the scenes to save the Jews."
Recently reported village Zhongdong, located in the mountainous Chinese province of Guangzhou. It is considered the only permanent in the country settlement in a natural cave . You can get to this settlement, located at an altitude of 1800 meters above sea level, only on foot.
A year ago, the current Pope Francis decided to unveil the archives of the Vatican. First of all, this concerns the activities of Pope Pius XII, who headed the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958, transmits to the BBC.
According to the Prefect of the Vatican Secret Archive, Sergio Pagano, the documents of the Second World War are presented on millions of pages and are divided into 121 parts.
Work with these classified materials has already been booked a year in advance. In particular, they plan to study the staff of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the German historian Hubert Wolf.
It is reported that before becoming Pope, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli observed how Nazism grew in the 1920s. He was repeatedly sent messages about the Nazi camps. But historians did not see the answers to them.
The Vatican rejects all charges against Pope Pius XII. They claim that the head of the church "worked behind the scenes to save the Jews."
Recently reported village Zhongdong, located in the mountainous Chinese province of Guangzhou. It is considered the only permanent in the country settlement in a natural cave . You can get to this settlement, located at an altitude of 1800 meters above sea level, only on foot.
