50 Years Ago: Pius Xii Tried to Save Jews in World War Ii, Says the Vatican

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On January 23, 1976, the Vatican released a volume of its documents from the Second World War, which reveal Pope Pius XII's secret efforts to save Jews from Nazi persecution. The volume is entitled “The Holy See and the Victims of the War. January-December 1943.” It is the ninth set of reports released by the Vatican up to that time. It has 700 pages, of which 48% is dedicated to revealing the efforts of the Church to help Jews flee the Nazis in…