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Church of spies : the Pope's secret war against Hitler / Mark Riebling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riebling, Mark, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958.
- Pius.
- Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Germany.
- Catholic Church.
- Anti-Nazi movement.
- International relations.
- Germany--Foreign relations--Catholic Church.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Vatican City.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Anti-Nazi movement--Vatican City.
- Vatican City.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 375 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Basic Books, [2015]
- Summary:
- The heart-pounding history of how Pope Pius XII--often labeled "Hitler's Pope"--was in fact an anti-Nazi spymaster, plotting against the Third Reich during World War II The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him "Hitler's Pope." But a key part of the story has remained untold. Pope Pius in fact ran the world's largest church, smallest state, and oldest spy service. Saintly but secretive, he sent birthday cards to Hitler--while secretly plotting to kill him. He skimmed from church charities to pay covert couriers, and surreptitiously tape-recorded his meetings with top Nazis. Under his leadership the Vatican spy ring actively plotted against the Third Reich. Told with heart-pounding suspense and drawing on secret transcripts and unsealed files, Church of Spies throws open the Vatican's doors to reveal some of the most astonishing events in the history of the papacy. Riebling reveals here how the world's greatest moral institution met the greatest moral crisis in history.
- Contents:
- Darkness over the earth
- The end of Germany
- Joey Ox
- Tyrannicide
- Someone to kill him
- Luck of the devil
- The black chapel
- Absolute secrecy
- The X-report
- Warnings to the west
- The brown birds
- Forging the iron
- The committee
- Conversations in the crypt
- Shootout in the cathedral
- Two bottles of cognac
- The Siegfried blueprints
- The white knight
- Prisoner of the Vatican
- It must happen
- Holy Germany
- The trove
- Hell
- The gallows
- A dead man
- The emerald lake.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780465022298
- 0465022294
- OCLC:
- 903675848
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