Let us please, please remember that by November 1943 at least two thirds of the Jews who were going to die at the hands of Nazis were ALREADY DEAD.
This note from Pius XII should be seen as a pathetically weak, late, quiet and ineffective response to a monstrous evil which had already murdered many millions, while the Vatican said little or nothing.
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“The voice of Pius XII is a lonely voice in the silence and darkness enveloping Europe this Christmas..He is about the only ruler left on the Continent of Europe who dares to raise his voice at all”. (Editorial, the New York Times, Dec 25, 1941).
“A full explanation of Pope Pius’ conduct is needed..It now falls to John Paul and his successors to take the next step toward full acceptance of the Vatican’s failure to stand squarely against the evil that swept across Europe” (Editorial, the New York Times, Mar 18, 1998).
http://www.al-bushra.org/vatican/indefense.htm
New York Times and Revisionism.
Albert Einstein: “Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty”
Jewish historian Rabbi David Dalin of New York: “Pius saved more Jews than even Oscar Schindler”.
Most of the accusations of our saintly Pope Pius can be traced to a single originating source: “The Deputy”, by Rolf Hochhuth’s 1963 play that created an image of Pius as a moral coward.
Given at the Vatican on Passion Sunday, March 14, 1937. ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI ON THE CHURCH AND THE GERMAN REICH