Church of Spies
The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler
New York : Basic Books, [2015]
Format: Book
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Description: viii, 375 pages ; 25 cm
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.
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.
Subjects:
Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958.
Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958.
Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958.
Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Germany.
Catholic Church.
Catholic Church.
Katholische Kirche.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Vatican City.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Anti-Nazi movement -- Vatican City.
Diplomatic relations.
International relations.
Drittes Reich.
Diplomatiska förbindelser -- historia.
Andra världskriget 1939-1945.
Antinazism.
Germany -- Foreign relations -- Catholic Church.
Germany.
Germany.
Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958.
Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958.
Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958.
Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Germany.
Catholic Church.
Catholic Church.
Katholische Kirche.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Vatican City.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Anti-Nazi movement -- Vatican City.
Diplomatic relations.
International relations.
Drittes Reich.
Diplomatiska förbindelser -- historia.
Andra världskriget 1939-1945.
Antinazism.
Germany -- Foreign relations -- Catholic Church.
Germany.
Germany.
ISBN:
9780465022298 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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HISTORY War WWII Espionage Rie | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-357) and index.