Posted on 09/08/2023 6:27:58 AM PDT by SJackson
ROME (AP) — Researchers have discovered new documentation that substantiates reports that Catholic convents and monasteries in Rome sheltered Jews during World War II, providing names of at least 3,200 Jews whose identities have been corroborated by the city’s Jewish community, officials said Thursday.
Researchers from the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust research institute and Rome’s Jewish community released the findings at an academic workshop Thursday held at the Museum of the Shoah, part of Rome’s main synagogue.
The documentation doesn’t appear to shed any new light on the role of Pope Pius XII during the Nazi occupation of Rome, including whether he directed Catholic institutions to shelter Jews. Historians have long debated Pius’ legacy, with supporters insisting he used quiet diplomacy to save Jewish lives and critics saying he remained silent as the Holocaust raged across Europe, and even as Roman Jews were rounded up and deported from the Vatican’s backyard in 1943.
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As many Nazis as he funneled through the Vatican in the last days of WWII, I can’t imagine he agreed to it. I read, in one of the many WWII/German history books that he even smuggled Martin Borman out.
Perhaps he turned a blind eye to the Jews, thinking if he doesn’t acknowledge it, it wasn’t happening.
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There is a fine TV movie, "The Scarlet and the Black," about O'Flaherty and how he ran rings around the Gestapo. Gregory Peck plays O'Flaherty, and Christopher Plummer plays Gestapo boss Herbert Kapler.
That was a great film.
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