Editorial: Some have accused him of being Hitler’s pope. The decision to open the archives will show if he was guilty of something more than indifference
Compared with other popes, Pius XII was not an egregiously wicked man. He neither enriched nor enlarged his family. He burnt no heretics and started no wars. But he was – unremarkably so by the standards of his time and class – antisemitic. He was also a contemporary of Adolf Hitler’s, and one who occupied a position of considerable moral authority.
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