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Interesting take on the issue.
Gary Krupp, who is Jewish, says he grew up hating the late pontiff. Now, at 62, the retired Long Island businessman is caught up in the controversy over the Vatican's effort to make Pius a saint. He says that as a Jew he's not interested in the sainthood issue ? he just wants to defend the wartime pope's reputation from "the worst character assassination of the 20th century."
One can not assassinate Pius 12ths reputation more than he did by his actions and inactions. His agreement with Hitler turned over the governance of the Catholic Bishops to Hitler. Though begged by Britain and others to denounce the Holocaust even while Jews were being marched to Auschwitz literally under his window he would not do so. Making him a Saint says more about the Church than anyone else could. Read Hitler?s Pope. The title sums that Pope up perfectly. Stockholm syndrome Jews like Krupp are not unusual.
I'm wondering if Germany really would have been able to defeat the Soviet Union, or if it was more like a crap shoot from the beginning for Hitler. Did Hitler underestimate the USSR completely? For example, had he been able to take Moscow, would he still have failed in taking the rest of the Soviet Union?
Hubris has often saved the world from tyrants.
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