Gerald J. Steinacher — The Pope Against Nuremberg: How the Vatican Helped Nazis Escape Postwar Justice - with Richard Breitman — at Conn Ave

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How Vatican officials aided Nazi war criminals and undermined Allied justice after World War II In the aftermath of World War II, the Nuremberg Trials promised a new era of international justice, holding Nazi leaders to account for their crimes. Yet beyond the courtroom, a very different struggle was unfolding one that played out behind the walls of the Vatican. Provocative and meticulously researched, The Pope Against Nuremberg https://politics prose.com/book/9781479845248 uncovers how the Vatican shielded Nazi war criminals, undermined the principles of the Nuremberg Trials, and ran ratline networks that spirited perpetrators to safety under the cover of Christian mercy. Drawing on newly opened Vatican archives, as well as government and intelligence records from Eur…

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