xxiv, 238, v pages ; 22 cm
Step-by-step account of how Pope Pius reacted to antisemitic measures of nazi Germany
Includes bibliographical references and index
The international crisis, March-September 1939 -- The rapprochement between the Church and the Reich -- An attempt at mediation -- The Holy See and the Polish Crisis -- The victories of the Reich, September 1939-June 1940 -- The destruction of Poland -- Pius XII meets Ribbentrop -- The invasion of Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg -- The defeat of France -- The path of concessions -- The beginning of the New Order in Europe, June 1940-June 1941 -- Mediation by Pius XII and the Soviet menace -- An unfathomable personality -- The political attitude of the Holy See, spring 1941 -- Germany attacks Russia; the United States enters the war; the extermination of the Jews (first phase), June 1941-December 1941 -- Germany attacks Russia -- The United States enters the war -- The Anti-Jewish legislation; the concentrations and extermination of the Jews (first phase) -- The shooting of hostages -- The "Final Solution," January 1942-early 1943 -- Information reaching the Holy See early in 1942 -- The intervention of the Jewish organizations -- The deportation of the French Jews -- Allied approaches to the Holy See -- The Gerstein Report -- Pope Pius's Christmas message, 1942 -- The Pope's letter to Msgr. Preysing and address to the Sacred College of Cardinals -- Msgr. Orsenigo's interventions -- The Holy See and the antireligious policy of the Reich, 1942-summer 1943 -- The first difficulties -- The Holy See and the antireligious policy of the Reich at the beginning of 1942 -- Hitler's order of June 1942 and its consequences -- The development of the international situation and the Bolshevik threat, 1942-1943 -- The Russian resistance, 1942 -- The aftermath of Stalingrad -- The Allied landing in Sicily and the problem of protecting Rome -- The fall of Mussolini, the Badoglio government and the separate Italian Armistice, July 25-September 3, 1943 -- The first weeks of the Germany occupation of Rome -- The deportation of the Roman and Italian Jews, October-December 1943 -- The Germans and Vatican City -- The deportation of the Jews from Rome -- The deportation of the Jews from Italy -- An interview with the Pope on the Reich and the international situation -- The deportation of the Hungarian Jews, 1944 -- The note from the Nuncio in Budapest and the fears of the Wilhelmstrasse -- The pastoral letter of the primate of Hungary -- The intervention of the Chief Rabbis of Palestine at the Holy See

Friedländer, Saul, 1932-; Mazal Holocaust Collection

Saul Friedländer

Bibliographical footnotes.

2023-06-28