Ira Stoll exposed himself as anti-Christian with the statement about Hitler's Pope!!! If Mr. Stoll would go back and read JUST what the Jews said about the Pope at the time, he would have the scales fall from his eyes!! The Pope saved hundreds of thousands of Jews from the gas chambers....according to the JEWS!!!
The writings by the New York Times as things were happening are very different from the anti-Christian New York Times is now.
Stoll is not anti-Christian per se.
Rather he has problems with the RCC's 1800 year history of anti-semetism. Until 1850's, the church was complicit in kidnapping of Jewish children and forced conversion of them.
In light of this history, Stoll takes a dim view to Pacelli/Pius XII's mixed record.
I happen to disagree and have defending Pope Pius XII against scurilous attacks. Unfortunatelyu, the slanderous attacks by James Caroll and Michaal Goldhagen have an effect.
Teh NY Times, spent the entire war downplaying the Holocaust.