Introducing The Pope and the Führer： The Secret Vatican Files of World War II with Michael Knowles
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Summary
For 80 years, the narrative about Pope Pius XI during World War II has been simple and wrong. They called him Hitler s Pope, accused him of silence, complicity, cowardice. It s been repeated so many times, most people stopped asking whether any of it was actually true. Now, for the first time, we have the documents, the real ones, from the Vatican s once-secret wartime archive. They tell a very different story.
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For 80 years, the narrative about Pope Pius XII during World War II has been simple and also wrong.
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They called him Hitler's Pope, accused him of silence, complicity, cowardice.
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It's been repeated so many times, most people stopped asking whether any of it was actually true.
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Now, for the first time, we have the documents, the real ones, from the Vatican's once-secret wartime archive.
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In a new four-part series, The Pope and the Fuhrer, The Secret Vatican Files of World War II,
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Michael Knowles investigates what the Church actually did during World War II.
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What did the Pope know? Why didn't he speak publicly? And why has the story been twisted for so long?
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This series is the most in-depth look at yet one of the most misunderstood figures of the 20th century,
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with access to files that were hidden for nearly 80 years.
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The truth matters, and that's why we made this series.
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