The Pope's Dilemma: Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War
Since the premiere of Rolf Hochhuth's play The Deputy in 1963, there has been no shortage of voices excoriating Pope Pius XII for his alleged moral failures during the Holocaust. Critics have repeatedly pointed out that Pius did not issue an emphatic condemnation of the atrocities committed by...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2016
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 3, Pages: 556-558 |
| Review of: | The pope's dilemma (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2015) (Ruff, Mark Edward)
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| Summary: | Since the premiere of Rolf Hochhuth's play The Deputy in 1963, there has been no shortage of voices excoriating Pope Pius XII for his alleged moral failures during the Holocaust. Critics have repeatedly pointed out that Pius did not issue an emphatic condemnation of the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany, the Croatian Ustasha, or other Axis allies. Jacques Kornberg adds to the chorus of criticism, but with a set of arguments as critical of earlier scholars and authors as of the Pontiff himself., Kornberg argues that the Pontiff's ecclesiology underlay his “moral failures,” not his callousness, venality, affinities for fascist regimes, or admiration for Germany as a bulwark against “Bolshevism”—charges hurled at him by earlier critics. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcw071 |