Pope and Devil : the Vatican's archives and the Third Reich /
Hubert Wolf ; translated by Kenneth Kronenberg.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
- 325 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Neutralizing evil? Vatican prescriptions for Germany (1917-1929) -- Perfidious Jews? The battle in the Vatican over anti-Semitism (1928) -- The pact with the Devil? The Reichskonkordat (1930-1933) -- Molto delicato? The Roman Curia and the persecution of the Jews (1933-1939) -- Dogma or diplomacy? The Catholic worldview and Nazi ideology (1933-1939).
In rich detail, Wolf presents astonishing findings from the recently opened Vatican archives--discoveries that clarify the relations between National Socialism and the Vatican. He illuminates the thinking of the popes, cardinals, and bishops who saw themselves in a historic struggle against evil. --from publisher description