The Pope and the Holocaust
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53mins
Directed by
Christel Fomm,
Starring
Hildegard Meier,
Klaus Kühlwein,
Emma Fattorini,
Pius XII.
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Why was Pope Pius XII, head of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958 silent about the extermination of the Jews by the Nazis? Accused of a complacent approach to the fascist horror in Europe during the Second World War, present-day Pope Francis opened the Vatican archives from the time in 2020.
