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Summary: Under her very Nose
Review: This is yet another piece of anti-Catholic vitriol charading as serious scholarship about World War II.The author claims that Pius XII did nothing to save Italian Jews but she simply ignores the massive, public evidence that he did. She makes no reference to the memoirs of the Chief Rabbi of Rome, personally sheltered by the pope and who recounts the hundreds of Italian Jewish lives saved by the Vatican. She ignores the abolition of cloister in Roman convents and monasteries (a move clearly approved by the pope) in order to provide refuge to persectuted. She claims that she found no "formal order" to this effect and ignores the published testimony of priestsand nuns from the period who cite Pius's approbation of this rescue effort. When she runs up against evidence she can't ignore, she dismisses it as ineffectual. She can't deny the hundreds of diplomatic protests send by Pius against Nazi atrocities, but she finds that they didn't change things much. What was Pius to do? Send in the Swiss Guard against the SS? ...
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