The Pius XII Lie
The myth of Pius XII's inaction in WWII isn't just wrong, it's an outright falsehood
Modern society accepts without question that Pius XII sat by and did nothing during the Holocaust. But what does this assumption stand on?
The idea of "Callous Pius" is very much a Baby-Boomer-on-up ideology. The idea didn't start getting traction until the 1960s, conspicuously at the same time the first generation that did not live through the war came of age.
Ion Mihai Pacepa, a former KGB agent and the highest-ranking military official to defect to the United States from behind the Iron Curtain, explained that the Soviet Union tried discrediting Pius XII in the 1940s but failed, as those alive at the time remembered the Pope's heroic efforts.
It would only be in the 1960s that the KGB's attempts to smear Pius XII began to make an impression on a new generation.
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Modern society accepts without question that Pius XII sat by and did nothing during the Holocaust. But what does this assumption stand on?
The idea of "Callous Pius" is very much a Baby-Boomer-on-up ideology. The idea didn't start getting traction until the 1960s, conspicuously at the same time the first generation that did not live through the war came of age.
Ion Mihai Pacepa, a former KGB agent and the highest-ranking military official to defect to the United States from behind the Iron Curtain, explained that the Soviet Union tried discrediting Pius XII in the 1940s but failed, as those alive at the time remembered the Pope's heroic efforts.
It would only be in the 1960s that the KGB's attempts to smear Pius XII began to make an impression on a new generation.
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