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Author Riebling, Mark, author.

Title Church of spies : the Pope's secret war against Hitler / Mark Riebling.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [2015]

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 Davis Adult Nonfiction  282.09044 RIE    CHECK SHELVES
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Description viii, 375 pages ; 25 cm
Content type text txt rdacontent
Format volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-357) and index.
Contents Darkness over the earth -- The end of Germany -- Joey Ox -- Extraordinary affairs -- The Pope is very interested -- Luck of the devil -- The Keller affair -- Absolute secrecy -- The X-report -- Warnings to the West -- The brown birds -- Forging the iron -- Conversations in the crypt -- Prague fatale -- A bottle of cognac -- The Siegfried blueprints -- Interrogations -- Prisoner of the Vatican -- D-Day -- X-Day -- The trove -- Hell -- The gallows -- Shoot them all! -- We cherished the hope.
Summary History has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him "Hitler's Pope." Riebling shows that, in reality, Pius ran the world's largest church, smallest state, and oldest spy service. Skimming from church charities to pay covert couriers, and surreptitiously tape-recording meetings with top Nazis, Pius played sent birthday cards to Hitler-- while secretly plotting to kill him. Fearing that overt protest would impede his covert actions, he muted his public response to Nazi crimes.
Subject Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958.
Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Germany.
Germany -- Foreign relations -- Catholic Church.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Vatican City.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Anti-Nazi movement -- Vatican City.
ISBN 9780465022298
0465022294