[Petronski]

False baptismal certificates and identity papers were forged by the Vatican for some Italian Jews. That's not a conversion.

OMG!

Is that what he means?

[AnAmericanMother]

Well, it was the only thing I could think of.

I suppose the postwar dispute about whether or not to turn over orphans to co-religionists who were not their relatives might enter into it as well. But again, that's not forced conversion, that's a child custody issue, and that all happened after the war was over. Nobody was asking too many questions about conversion while trying to figure out where to squeeze in another couple of refugee families.

And of course, meanwhile, the Kraut commander in Italy just barely talked Hitler out of kidnapping or assassinating Pope Pius . . .