If it was anyone that ‘went along with the Nazi regime’ it was the American government, the British government and the French government who could have done something prior to '35.
The vatican signed the concordat with the nazi regime in '33, but Hitler broke it. Britain and France signed it in 1938 despite the warnings that the nazi regime was lying. People don’t want the Church to involve itself in society, yet when something goes wrong they are asking for the Church.
Let’s not forget what the Israeli chief rabbi said about pius xii’s pontificate and the millions of jews that thanked the church. He thanked the Holy Father and his illustrious delegates who at a time of war showed the manifestation of divine providence. All this rubbish spurting up now is the remnants of the soviet disinformation campaign. The Vatican never had full control of the whole church during the war, some bishops did whatever they wanted, people look at 60 years through a lens of today.
They forget there was no internet, if something went wrong it usually took months to clarify something and get it set back on path. I don’t know what this ‘forced labour’ exactly is, this is the first time I’m hearing it. I know in general terms that millions were ‘forced’ to work for the Nazi and Fascist governments at the time in Europe. It’s not something you could volunteer for, either you worked or you died.
Supposedly the whole Nazi thing is the Church’s fault too, especially when Nazism wanted to bring down the Catholic Church, yea that makes perfect sense now.
Who seriously writes these delusional articles? Misleading themselves and others.
Funny you should mention him, was writing an article about him for my youth group.