Exactly 71 years ago, March 2, 1939, was elected Pope Pius XII .
E 'is still the center of several controversies regarding so-called "silence" on the tragedy of the Holocaust, about his alleged anti-Semitic tendencies and its relations with the Nazis elusive.
dispelling these three points, even if it's enough to read the " Actes et documents du Saint Siège relatifs à la Seconde Guerre World " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actes_et_documents_du_Saint_Si% C3% A8ge_relatifs_% C3% A0_la_Seconde_Guerre_Mondiale , in 12 volumes result of research in the Vatican Secret 17-year, commissioned by Pope Paul VI and carried out by 'team of four Jesuit historian Pierre Blet, Robert Graham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Graham , Angelo Martini and Burkhart Schneider, which is re-established, with evidence of official documents, the truth about the pontificate of Pius XII during the Second World War. - Pius XII was publicly cautious not to provoke the worst effects and to safeguard the work Catholic anti-Nazi resistance.
"Every word uttered by us should be carefully considered so as not to cause - even unintentionally - to the worst evils themselves persecuted .
(Tornielli, Pius XII, a signature against the black legends, Tracks)
I chose one of many compelling testimonies, which shows that it was the German Catholic resistance to ask Pope Pius XII did not speak publicly in directly. The
said one of the representatives of the resistance, the lawyer Bavarian Franz Josef Müller (1898-1979), a member of the German political Catholicism during the Weimar Republic and after the Second World War, a member of the Catholic resistance movement called the White Rose http://dallaragioneallafede.blogspot.com/2010/ 02/i-cattolici-e-la-resistenza-nazista.html .
Müller was a very important piece because it was part of the German secret service, the Abwehr http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abwehr under the guidance of Admiral Canaris, who became one of the hidden 's anti-Hitler opposition. Known are its numerous contacts with the Vatican between 1939 and 1940: it was sent to Rome with an apology, and indeed prelates met (some German) connected directly to Pius XII. In this wonderful article
http://www.30giorni.it/it/articolo.asp?id=7362 you can find all the documentation of strong relationships between the Catholic anti-Nazi resistance and the Vatican.
Muller was to inform the Pope of projects and plans of the opposition German anti-Hitler, with the objective of building a democratic Germany. He also demanded that the pope acted as a guarantor with the British government, the role of Pius XII, with very considerable risk, he agreed to play by the English ambassador to the Holy See, D'Arcy Osborne.
was a "done absolutely stunning in history of the papacy ", as written by Renato Moro http://www.uniroma3.it/page.php?page=prorettoremoro , Provost of the University of Rome 3 and expert Contemporary History (the shifts of war and 'arrest in 1943, Muller did wreck the project)
On June 2, 1945, one month after the release of Americans, Muller went to the Vatican. Pius XII faced for the first time in public the problem of relations between the Church and the Nazism, despite criticism of his policy did not go beyond some whispering and diplomat, however, was generally acknowledged and commended the humanitarian role played by the Vatican during the war :
Part of speech says "You see what he leaves behind a concept and an activity of the state, not taking into account the most sacred feelings of humanity, which tramples on the inviolable principles of the Christian faith. The whole world , surprised, today contemplates the ruin it has caused "
( If historians ignore the evidence , L'Osservatore Romano 6/02/10) http://www.vatican.va/news_services/or / or_quo/cultura/2010/030q04a1.html
document is the overwhelming : At
widespread criticism to the "silence" the public of the Pope during the Nazi regime, said Müller long, recalling the precise demands of the German resistance to his aristocratic-military orientation (which was later than he would have organized the attack on July 20, 1944) had made repeatedly to the Pontiff:
"Dr. Müller - wrote Tittmann - said that his organization during the war against Nazi Germany had always insisted that the Pope will stop them from making any public statement specifically as a direct condemnation of the Nazis, and had recommended that the comments of the Pope were kept within the limits general considerations of the sun. Dr. Muller said he was forced to give this advice, because if the Pope were specific state, the Germans were accused of giving in to pressure from foreign powers and that would have made even more suspicious than they were German Catholics and would have greatly restricted their freedom of action in their work of resistance to Nazism. Dr. Muller said that the policy of the Catholic resistance in Germany was that the Pope should be held on the sidelines, while the German hierarchy to continue the fight against Nazism within Germany, it appears that without external influences. Dr. Muller said that the Pope has followed this advice for the duration of the war. He imagines that the Pope has decided to take hours in the open field against the Nazis because the implications of his complaints are currently very important and seem to overwhelm other considerations to the Pope. "
(This unique document (n.242) is also published in the collection edited by 1939-1952 Ennio Di Nolfi http://www. polistampa.com / asp / sa.asp? id = 549 , professor emeritus of History of International Relations in 1978 and dedicated to the Vatican and the U.S.)
- Pius XII was not anti-Semitic but even organized a network in illegal aid to the Jews.
It shows how anti-Semitism of Pius XII has been made a real black legend . It speaks
Don Giancarlo Centioni that from 1940 to 1945 he worked as a chaplain in the Voluntary Militia for National Security in Rome and was part of a clandestine network created by Pius XII in person to save Jews from Nazi persecution :
"We deliver passports and money to Jewish families so that they could escape. Both the documents that the money came directly from the Secretary of State of His Holiness, by name and on behalf of Pius XII .
(Don Centioni, thus saved Jews by Pius XII http://www.tracce.it/default.asp?id=344&id_n=13931&pagina=1 , Tracks 14/1/10)
as demonstrated by a search Grazia Loparco http://www.nostreradici.it/casereligiose-persecuzionenazista.htm , the Church's effort was tremendous: only in Italy, and in more than 100 cities in 102 countries, 500 male and female religious houses have hidden Jews.
"An effort that can not be explained without the tacit blessing of Pope Pius XII, in part because many Jews were hidden in institutions of seclusion and only a special order of the Pope could afford to violate it" .
(Don Centioni, Così salvavo gli ebrei con Pio XII , Tracce 14/1/10)
Grazie al suo ruolo, don Centioni, ha potuto salvare molte vite:
"I miei colleghi sacerdoti tedeschi mi hanno invitato a partecipare alla rete clandestina. Siccome ero cappellano fascista, mi era più facile aiutare gli ebrei".
(Don Centioni, Così salvavo gli ebrei con Pio XII , Tracce 14/1/10)
Padre Pierre Blet , storico gesuita che lavorò 17 anni negli Archivio segreto Vaticano, sostenne inoltre:
"Negli archivi trovammo una miniera di documenti, lettere di Pacelli ai vescovi tedeschi. Quella scoperta allowed us to know the secret diplomacy of Pacelli in saving many Jews, but also his care to avoid the persecution of the Catholic faithful .
(Interview with Father Belt, Future, November 12, 2009)
remember then, as documented by Pierre Blet, which "indirectly by the Nazis in occupied countries such as Slovakia and Hungary, it was thanks to the direct The Pope who succeeded in stopping the deportation of many Jews. Pius XII intervened usually where its action could pay off real. Also Leiber father, the last secretary of Pope Pius XII, has confirmed to me that the Pope had used his luck own staff to help the Jews persecuted by Nazism.
( Interview with Father Belt http://www.avvenire.it/Cultura/Pio+XII+e+Hitler+lettere+fantasma_200911120816473030000.htm , Future , November 12, 2009)
- There is no correspondence between Pius XII and Adolf Hitler.
Father Blet answers "If we do not have published the correspondence between Pius XII and Hitler because it does not exist. Furthermore, if the correspondence had existed, the letters of the Pope would be preserved in the archives in Germany and there is no trace in quelli del Ministero degli Esteri del Reich e viceversa le lettere di Hitler sarebbero finite in Vaticano" .
( Intervista a padre Belt , Avvenire, 12 Novembre 2009)
Conclusione
Ho dimostrato con alcune preziose testimonianze e documentazioni il perché dei "silenzi" di Pio XII rispetto al regime nazista, il suo aiuto concreto agli ebrei e l'inesistenza del carteggio con Hitler. L'odio ateo-anticattolico vuole sostenere che Pio XII in realtà appoggiasse ardentemente il potere di Hitler e lo sterminio di migliaia di uomini, ebrei e anche religiosi cattolici?
A loro l'onere della prova.
Concludo con una frase dell'ex Chief Rabbi of Rome, Eugenio Zolli http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio_Zolli , who converted to Catholicism in 1945. His conversion is one of the overwhelming evidence of how the Jews themselves were grateful and estimate Pius XII and the Catholic Church.
"What the Vatican did will be indelibly and eternally engraved in our hearts ... they have done things that will always be a title of honor for Catholicism"
(Zolli, Before dawn, autobiography entitled http://www.libreriadelsanto.it/libri/9788821550621/prima-dellalba-autobiografia-autorizzata.html , San Paolo 2004, EAN)
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