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Mass Grave Of History: Vatican's WWII Identity Crisis

By Julia Gorin / The Jerusalem Post
Catholic Church, looking for a bulwark against communism, supported what became genocidal regime of Nazi satellite Croatia.
The controversy over the canonization of Pope Pius XII concerns whether he spoke out enough against the slaughter of Jews during World War II. But that question is a red herring when trying to grasp the big picture of the Vatican's role during the war. The real question is whether the Vatican supported the world order, or at least aspects of it, that the Third Reich promised to bring, a world order in which dead Jews were collateral damage - which Pius indeed regretted. The answer can be found in a region of Europe that is generally ignored despite being the nexus of world wars: the Balkans.
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Posted by Editor at March 13, 2010 01:54 AM