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Church of spies : the Pope's secret war against Hitler / Mark Riebling.

by Riebling, Mark.

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Basic Books, [2015]

Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958.

Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Germany.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Vatican City.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.

Anti-Nazi movement -- Vatican City.

Germany -- Foreign relations -- Catholic Church.

9780465022298 (hc.)

0465022294 (hc.)

viii, 375 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-357) and index.

Darkness over the earth -- The end of Germany -- Joey Ox -- Tyrannicide -- Someone to kill him -- Luck of the devil -- The black chapel -- Absolute secrecy -- The X-report -- Warnings to the west -- The brown birds -- Forging the iron -- The committee -- Conversations in the crypt -- Shootout in the cathedral -- Two bottles of cognac -- The Siegfried blueprints -- The white knight -- Prisoner of the Vatican -- It must happen -- Holy Germany -- The trove -- Hell -- The gallows -- A dead man -- The emerald lake.

"History has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him "Hitler's Pope." But a key part of the story has remained untold. Pius ran the world's largest church, smallest state, and oldest spy service. Saintly but secretive, he skimmed from church charities to pay covert couriers, and surreptitiously tape-recorded his meetings with top Nazis. When he learned of the Holocaust, Pius played his cards close to his chest. He sent birthday cards to Hitler - while plotting to overthrow him. Church of Spies documents this cross-and-dagger intrigue. Gun-toting Jesuits stole blueprints to Hitler's homes. A Catholic book publisher flew a sports plane over the Alps with secrets filched from the head of Hitler's bodyguard. The keeper of the Vatican crypt ran a spy ring that betrayed German war plans and wounded Hitler in a briefcase bombing. The plotters made history in ways they hardly expected. They inspired European unification, forged a U.S.-Vatican alliance that spanned the Cold War, and challenged Church teachings on Jews. Yet Pius' secret war muted his public response to Nazi crimes. Fearing that overt protest would impede his covert actions, he never spoke the "fiery words" he wanted. Told with heart-pounding suspense, based on secret transcripts and unsealed files, Church of Spies throws open the Vatican's doors to reveal some of the most astonishing events in the history of the papacy, changing perceptions of how this great moral institution met the greatest moral crisis in history."--Provided by publisher.

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