Pope Pius XII denounced Hitler, trainee priest claims.(Foreign News)

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: September 2, 2003| Author: Popham, Peter | Copyright information

Byline: Peter Popham in Milan

POPE PIUS XII, stigmatised as "Hitler's Pope" and the man whose actions hastened the Holocaust, described Hitler as "a fundamentally wicked person", according to documents published yesterday.

Charles Gallagher, a former policeman training to be a priest, says that he stumbled on the documents in archives in America. They appear with his commentary in the 1 September edition of America, a weekly Jesuit magazine.

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