Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-436) and index (pages 445-459)
Contents:
Foreward-- Introduction-- Night of broken glass-- "Spiritually we are all Semites"-- Operation exodus-- "Aid for the Jews"-- Hitler's enemy-- Conspiracy against the war-- Tyrannicide-- The race against time-- Beneath the cloak of silence-- "Be proud that you are a Jew"-- The crippling fear-- The Pope's "Prudent Silence"-- "In order to avoid even greater evils"-- Delaying the deportations-- In extreme danger-- Beneath his windows-- The Pope's hour-- The final confrontation-- Epilogue-- After the opening of the archives-- Chronology.
Summary:
"This dramatically illuminating book should finally put to rest the calumnies against Pius XII, whose actions saved more Jews during the Holocaust tha[n] any other single individual."--BOOK JACKET.
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