God and the Fascists
Subtitle: The Vatican Alliance with Mussolini, Franco, Hitler, and Pavelic
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781616148379
Description: Now available in English for the first time, a controversial work that indicts the Vatican for its actions before and during World War II. In the decade preceding the outbreak of World War II, the Vatican made a devil's bargain with fascist leaders. Anticipating that their regimes would eliminate a common enemy--namely Marxist-Leninist communism--two popes essentially collaborated with Hitler, Mussolini, and the fascist dictators in Spain (Franco) and Croatia (Pavelić). This is the damning indictment of this well-researched polemic, which for almost five decades in Germany has sparked controversy, outrage, and furious debate.