I once got suspended on a subreddit for pointing out Nazis starved/executed far more than the Six Million™ we only hear about. If you really wanna tile them up, mention the number of Catholic clergy the Nazis killed. (Of course the response is always “Pius XII didn’t do enough or Pius XII was Hitler’s Pope™“)
Most Europeans knows this because they have built monuments all over the villages of Europe in memory of those lost. People really don't know the real history of WWII and the Nazis.
Yes. I had heard about it exactly never growing up in the US (attending “Catholic”schools for 13 years nonetheless) and, to your point, didn’t learn about it until reading a small display when I visited Dachau in Munich. Redpill to say the least, especially since I was there ostensibly to retrace my Catholic US Army infantrymen grandfathers’ (including the one with full German ancestry) steps in WWII.
In the past decade there have been several great books about Pius 12th actions during the war and it is the complete opposite of that Soviet propaganda that he aided
Hitler.
Mark Riebling "Church of Spies". The book was drawn from recently accessed papal archives. The Pope would send Hitler a birthday card, while plotting to kill him.
Absolutely, Pius was smeared. It was such a revisionist history to think that a guy literally surrounded 360° by Mussolini’s fascist state could’ve done any more than he did during that war. Thank you for the tip, I will check that book out
I once got suspended on a subreddit for pointing out Nazis starved/executed far more than the Six Million™ we only hear about. If you really wanna tile them up, mention the number of Catholic clergy the Nazis killed. (Of course the response is always “Pius XII didn’t do enough or Pius XII was Hitler’s Pope™“)
Most Europeans knows this because they have built monuments all over the villages of Europe in memory of those lost. People really don't know the real history of WWII and the Nazis.
Yes. I had heard about it exactly never growing up in the US (attending “Catholic”schools for 13 years nonetheless) and, to your point, didn’t learn about it until reading a small display when I visited Dachau in Munich. Redpill to say the least, especially since I was there ostensibly to retrace my Catholic US Army infantrymen grandfathers’ (including the one with full German ancestry) steps in WWII.
In the past decade there have been several great books about Pius 12th actions during the war and it is the complete opposite of that Soviet propaganda that he aided Hitler. Mark Riebling "Church of Spies". The book was drawn from recently accessed papal archives. The Pope would send Hitler a birthday card, while plotting to kill him.
Absolutely, Pius was smeared. It was such a revisionist history to think that a guy literally surrounded 360° by Mussolini’s fascist state could’ve done any more than he did during that war. Thank you for the tip, I will check that book out