My thanks to all those who contributed to my earlier blog about Pius XII and the Holocaust. There were some informative and helpful posts. Indeed, as a result of one of them I was prompted to watch the interview with Sir Martin Gilbert. An authority on Churchill as well as the Holocaust, Gilbert also happens to be Jewish. He was in no doubt that Pius XII did everything he possibly could to save Jewish lives. In a kindly, but completely authoritative way, Gilbert dismissed the play by Hochhuth (translated as The Deputy) as a work of polemical fiction, which made no attempt to present the documentary evidence that existed. “I didn’t find the Hochuth play historical in any way,” he concluded.
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How to kill the myth of Hitler's Pope
Harold Bloom said he wanted to bin all the remaining copies of his novel. Perhaps that idea could be taken up elsewhere
Francis Phillips
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