Pope and Devil
Subtitle: the Vatican's archives and the Third Reich
By: Hubert Wolf ; translated by Kenneth Kronenberg
Contributors: Kronenberg, Kenneth
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780674050815
Work titles: Papst & Teufel
Description: In rich detail, Wolf presents astonishing findings from the recently opened Vatican archives--discoveries that clarify the relations between National Socialism and the Vatican. He illuminates the thinking of the popes, cardinals, and bishops who saw themselves in a historic struggle against evil. --from publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: Neutralizing evil? Vatican prescriptions for Germany (1917-1929); title: Perfidious Jews? The battle in the Vatican over anti-Semitism (1928); title: The pact with the Devil? The Reichskonkordat (1930-1933); title: Molto delicato? The Roman Curia and the persecution of the Jews (1933-1939); title: Dogma or diplomacy? The Catholic worldview and Nazi ideology (1933-1939).