Vatican opens archives about Germany early in a bid to improve image of Pius XII AP Worldstream | February 13, 2003| | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

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Dateline: VATICAN CITY For years the Vatican has struggled to defend its wartime pope, Pius XII, against claims he was anti-Semitic and didn't do enough to save Jews from the Holocaust.

Now the Vatican is taking the extraordinary step of opening part of its secret archives ahead of schedule, in a bid to silence attacks against a man it is considering for sainthood. Starting Saturday, millions of Vatican documents from the years leading up to World War II will be available to scholars.

The Vatican's chief archivist says he doesn't expect any "shocking ...

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