The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965.(Review)

The Christian Century | October 10, 2001| | Copyright

The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965. By Michael Phayer. Indiana University Press, 301 pp., $2,9.00.

CONTROVERSY ABOUT the role of the Vatican and Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust has raged ever since Rolf Hochhuth's play The Deputy was first performed in 1965, but the debate has intensified in recent years. Since 1965 the Vatican has published 11 volumes of selected archival material from the Nazi era--but these volumes omitted some relevant documents. Last fall, a commission of six historians (three Catholics and three Jews) concluded their ...

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