Source: Agensir
According to a research published in the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday and reported yesterday by the Israeli daily Haaretz, Pius XII may have arranged the exodus of about 200,000 Jews from Germany just three weeks after Kristallnacht (9-10 November 1938). The research is being carried out by Dr. Michael Hesemann, a German historian who is combing through the Vatican archives for the Pave the Way Foundation". "Pope Pius XII – Haaretz reported – has been widely criticized for his silence during the Holocaust and his failure to explicitly denounce the Holocaust, the Nazi regime or to excommunicate Hitler. The new research, however, shows that the perception of Pius XII as ‘Hitler’s Pope’ may be historically incorrect". According to the German historian, "Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli – the future Pius XII – wrote a letter on November 30, 1938, urging Catholic archbishops throughout the world to apply for visas for ‘non-Aryan Catholics’ and ‘Jewish converts to Christianity’ who wanted to flee Germany. According to Hesemann, there is evidence that the visas would have been given to ordinary Jews and that the terms ‘converted Jews’ and ‘non-Aryan Catholics’ were a cover to prevent the Nazis from discovering the true purpose of the visas". (continued)” “