How many people, outside of those actually close to the concentration camps, actually knew what exactly was going on? The Nazis were brutally efficient, and circulated a lot of misinformation to muddy the waters. And remember, although Jews were the single largest group of victims of the Holocaust, they accounted for less than half of the total.
Holocaust museum praised for corrections to Pius XII exhibit
cna ^ | July 5, 2012 | Benjamin Mann
Jerusalem, Israel, Jul 5, 2012 / 03:38 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial has made changes to a controversial exhibit on Pope Pius XII, presenting a more balanced view of his actions toward the Nazis and their Jewish victims.
Pave the Way Foundation President Gary Krupp, a prominent Jewish defender of Pope Pius XII, said his inter-religious group was “very pleased” with Yad Vashem’s change of position, which “should show the world that it is truly an institution based on facts and truth.”
“The black legend against Pope Pius XII is being bleached white by the stark light of truth,” Krupp told CNA on July 5. Further research, he said, will show that the Pope, born Eugenio Pacelli, “was indeed a great hero to the Jewish people during our darkest years of the Shoah.”
Yad Vashem’s new wall panel on Pius XII and the Vatican “presents a more complex picture than previously presented,” the museum said in a July 1 announcement, citing “research that has been done in the recent years” on the wartime Pope.
The panel’s revised text states that “reaction of Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli, to the murder of the Jews during the Holocaust is a matter of controversy among scholars.” It acknowledges the Pope’s condemnation of ethnic persecutions, as well as the Holy See’s efforts to save Jews...
“The black legend against Pope Pius XII is being bleached white by the stark light of truth,” Krupp told CNA on July 5. Further research, he said, will show that the Pope, born Eugenio Pacelli, “was indeed a great hero to the Jewish people during our darkest years of the Shoah.”
The above is also excerpted from the linked article. A reasonable person could conclude that the exclusion of this exculpatory crux of the article is intentional and even expected from someone who has maintained an unwarranted vendetta against the Church. The fact that the accusations against Pope Pius XII originated within the Kremlin for cold war propaganda purposes shed light on your presumed motives.
The whole “Hitler’s Pope” tale is a KGB disinformation operation. The highest ranking East bloc intelligence agent ever to defect to the West, Ion Mihi Pacepa, who himself participated in the operation, says so. Pacepa even reports the detail that Andropov regretted the operation to him after learning of Hitler’s plans to arrest or kill Pius XII.
Put that together with the overwhelmingly favorable testimony of people who actually lived through the events in question — like the chief rabbi of Rome, Angelo Roncalli (later Pope John XXIII), Golda Meir, Pinchas Lapide, etc. — and it’s clear that “Hitler’s Pope” is a dirty slander.
The whole article.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/holocaust-museum-praised-for-corrections-to-pius-xii-exhibit/