Pope and Devil
Subtitle: the Vatican's archives and the Third Reich
By: Hubert Wolf ; translated by Kenneth Kronenberg.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780674050815
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Germany; Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century; National socialism and religion; Germany -- Foreign relations -- Catholic Church; Germany -- Foreign relations -- 1918-1933; Germany -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945
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 (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Neutralizing evil? : Vatican prescriptions for Germany (1917-1929); title: Perfidious Jews? : the battle in the Vatican over anti-Semitism; 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).