Chosen people, I suggest you stop with your anti-Pius XII rants and please check your sources. It just goes to show you how uneducated you are. Tell me, why would Pius hide Jews in Castel Gandolfo if he was a Nazi sympathizer? Tell me that.
Yes we all know how stupid the Jews are especially the ones who don’t agree with you.
I have asked you in my posts in the past not to make personal comments about my intelligence but to no avail.
I am disappointed that the forum moderators have yet to take action in this matter but you may rest assured from this point on I will bring it to their attention.
Its none of your business but since your so interested in my education, or lack of it, besides being fully bilingual I have over twenty years of formal education, am a graduate of one of the world’s leading universities (as well as other institutions of higher learning) with degrees and academic studies in the fields of law, Jewish history, the history of Zionism, political science and management studies.
Pope Pius xii deafening silence when Jews were being marched to the gas chambers is an affront not only to the survivors of the holocaust but also to the memory of the Catholic clergy, who unlike him, had the intestinal fortitude to speak out.
The Pope’s indifference to the mistreatment of Jews was often clear. In 1941, for example, after being asked by French Marshal Henri Philippe Petain if the Vatican would object to anti-Jewish laws, Pius XII answered that the church condemned racism, but did not repudiate every rule against the Jews.(16) When Petain’s French puppet government introduced “Jewish statutes,” the Vichy ambassador to the Holy See informed Petain that the Vatican did not consider the legislation in conflict with Catholic teachings, as long as they were carried out with “charity” and “justice.”(17)
In a September 1940 broadcast, the Vatican called its policy “neutrality,” but stated in the same broadcast that where morality was involved, no neutrality was possible.(18) This could only imply that mass murder was not a moral issue.
On September 8, 1943, the Nazis invaded Italy and, suddenly, the Vatican was the local authority. The Nazis gave the Jews 36 hours to come up with 50 kilograms of gold or else the Nazis would take 300 hostages. The Vatican was willing to loan 15 kilos, an offer that eventually proved unnecessary when the Jews obtained an extension for the delivery.(19)
Pius XII knew that Jewish deportations from Italy were impending. The Vatican even found out from SS First Lieutenant Kurt Gerstein the fate of those who were to be deported.(20) Publicly, the Pope stayed silent. Privately, Pius did instruct Catholic institutions to take in Jews. The Vatican itself hid 477 Jews and another 4,238 Jews were protected in Roman monasteries and convents.(21)
On October 16, the Nazis arrested 1,007 Roman Jews, the majority of whom were women and children. They were taken to Auschwitz, where 811 were gassed immediately. Of those sent to the concentration camp, 16 survived.(22)
source:
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/…tism/pius.html
The fact is that Pius XII knew as early as 1942 (from a letter he had received from Kurt Gerstein, an SS officer, who had provided Zyklon B to gas inmates at concentration and death camps), that Hitler had initiated a final solution but the Pius still continued his silence.
As a former Vatican official, Father Martin Malachi, wrote in one of his books that Pius XII had the Gerstein report, and as a result, he told the German Ambassador to the Vatican, Baron Von Weizsaecker that, If such is true and if it continues, we will be forced to speak.
But it continued. And even as late as 1945, Pius XII never issued a word of condemnation. Officially his name is Pius XII, but as far as the Jews are concerned, he will be known as Pius the Silent"
SOURCE:
wiesenthal.com/site/apps/…3162&ct=286444
