Michael Burleigh

Rent-A-Moralists At Bay

The Myth of Hitler’s Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis

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Righteous Gentiles: How Pius XII and the Catholic Church Saved Half a Million Jews from the Nazis

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Spence Publishing 378pp $29.95 order from our bookshop

Several weeks ago, David Irving was arrested on an outstanding warrant by the Austrian authorities; he is currently on remand awaiting trial. One of the few aspects of this affair not to attract press coverage was that Irving was visiting one of his soul mates, the German playwright Rolf Hochhuth, author of the 1963 Schillerian drama, The Deputy, with its factitious claims about Pius XII. 

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