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pp. 430, notes, index, black and white photo section. A neat pastedown of a related news article on ffep, otherwise undamaged. “In ‘Hitler’s Pope,’ backed by a wealth of new research, John Cornwell tells for the first time the story of the career of Eugenio Pacelli, the man who as Pius XII was Pope during the Second World War and arguably the most powerful churchman in modern history. Adding to the continuing debate about collective guilt and the Holocaust, as most recently explored by Gitta Sereny’s ‘Albert Speer’ and Daniel Goldhagen’s ‘Hitler’s Willing Executioners,’ this extraordinary and explosive history. By exploring the story of Pacelli’s early career, including his patent anti-Semitism, John Cornwell makes a firm and final indictment of Pope Pius XII’s scandalous wartime silence and it consequences. He concludes that in the latter half of John Paul II’s reign the policies of Pius XII have re-emerged to threaten schism in the Catholic Church.”Remainder mark on top and bottom edge of book pages