A portrait of Pope Pius XII (1876-1958), head of the Catholic Church from 1939 until his death, who, during World War II, and while European Jews were being exterminated by the Nazis, was accused of keeping a disconcerting and shameful silence.
vatican (holy see)
holocaust (shoah)
world war ii
jew persecution
antisemitism
religion
catholicism
italian history
european history
jewish history
holocaust (shoah) denial
pope pius xii
historical documentary