https://www.rt.com/information/583077-pope-pius-holocaust-letter/New paperwork contradict Vatican claims on WWII Jew murders – media

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https://www.rt.com/information/583077-pope-pius-holocaust-letter/New paperwork contradict Vatican claims on WWII Jew murders – media

Pope Pius XII reportedly knew concerning the day by day killings of as much as 6,000 Poles and Jews on the Belzec demise camp

Pope Pius XII was advised concerning the murders of hundreds of Jews on the Belzec extermination camp in Nazi occupied Poland, based on a letter revealed by Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on Saturday. The Vatican has lengthy maintained that it was unaware of the true scale of the Holocaust.

Addressed to Pius’ secretary, the letter was written by German Jesuit priest Lothar Koenig in December 1942 and just lately found by a Vatican archivist.

Within the missive, the priest reportedly mentions an SS-operated fuel chamber on the Belzec demise camp in Poland, whereas additionally referring to the extermination camp at Auschwitz. 

Koenig reportedly describes how “as much as 6,000 males die day by day, particularly Poles and Jews” within the “blast furnaces” at Belzec.

It’s unclear whether or not Pius ever learn Koenig’s letter. Nonetheless, the Pontiff started receiving correspondence from British and Polish envoys in the identical month of 1942, informing him that as much as 1,000,000 Jews had already been murdered by that time in Poland by the Nazi regime.

In an tackle delivered two weeks after receiving Koenig’s letter, the pontiff spoke out towards the killings of “a whole bunch of hundreds” of “faultless” folks due to their “nationality or race.” Within the tackle, he didn’t identify the perpetrators or victims of those murders.

Critics of Pius have lengthy argued that the Pope didn’t do sufficient to focus on the Holocaust, and that he was overly cautious in his statements on the matter. His supporters say that he was sure by the Holy See’s neutrality and labored by way of diplomatic channels to save as much as 800,000 Jewish lives.

Moreover, Koenig reportedly pleaded with Pius’ secretary to not make the contents of his letter public, for worry that Nazi authorities would kill him and his resistance sources. 

After the struggle, Pius was introduced with a sum of cash from World Jewish Council chief Dr Leon Kubowitzky “in recognition of the work of the Holy See in rescuing Jews from Fascist and Nazi persecutions.” He was additionally honored by Israeli Prime Ministers Golda Meir and Moshe Sharett, and Chief Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog.

Koenig’s letter, and extra correspondence from his papacy, are as a consequence of be mentioned at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian College subsequent month. Representatives from Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust analysis institute, the US Holocaust Memorial, and Israeli and US embassies will attend the convention, the Related Press reported on Saturday.

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