POPE PIUS XII - and the character assassination by those who really were Hitler’s allies:- DIED 9th OCTOBER 1958
POPE PIUS XII - and the character assassination by those who really were Hitler’s allies:- DIED this day - 9th OCTOBER 1958 At the close of the war, and up to and after his death in 1958, Pope Pius XII was revered throughout the world as the leader who had faced down the evils of Nazism. Jewish leaders who had witnessed the suffering of their people at first hand praised Pope Pius XII as the person who, in the face of the ruthless elimination of any opposition by the Nazis, had mobilised the members of the Church and the Catholic faithful to act, at the risk of their lives and the lives of their families and communities, in a massive rescue. The result of the concerted action by the network of the Catholic faithful was estimated by the Israeli diplomat and historian, Pinchas Lapide, who personally interviewed Holocaust survivors, to be the saving of 700,000 to 860,000 Jews “from certain death at Nazi hands”. Testimony as to the courageous stance taken by Pius XII was given by the Chi...