New documents show Pius XII helped Jews
February 23, 2009
The Pave the Way Foundation, which has gather evidence showing that Pope Pius XII assisted Jews during World War II, announced Thursday that it had found documentary evidence that the future pontiff had already assisted Jews in the 1910s and 1920s. Documents discovered by historian Michael Hesemann, author of The Pope Who Defied Hitler and The Truth About Pius XII, show that Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli sought protection for Jews in the Ottoman Empire, recommended that Pope Benedict XV meet with a representative of the World Zionist Organization, and urged German Catholics to support the Committee for Palestine.
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