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In September, 1943, Adolf Hitler, mad during a ouster of Mussolini, sent German infantry into Rome and systematic SS General Karl Wolff, who had been Heinrich Himmler’s arch aide, to occupy a Vatican and kidnap (and, perhaps, kill) Pope Pius XII. At a same time skeleton were being done to expatriate Rome’s Jews to Auschwitz, Wolff began personification a dangerous game: stalling Hitler’s tract opposite a pope, whom he hoped would save him from a knot in box Germany mislaid a war. To save Pius, Wolff and associate conspirators blackmailed him into overpower when a Jews were dull up, anticipating that Hitler would revoke his order. This story of amour and profanation is one of a many critical infinite stories of World War II. Dan Kurzman was a initial publisher to have interviewed General Wolff following his recover from jail after a war. And this is a usually book to tell a full behind-the-scenes story of a tract opposite a Vatican and a inclusive consequences.
Veteran renouned historian Kurzman (The Bravest Battle) relates how a Hitler-Himmler sequence in 1943 to kidnap a pope and seize Vatican files and treasures was twice behind and finally undermined by a organisation of high German officers and officials in Rome. The foilers were headed by a SS personality in Italy, Gen. Karl Wolff, whom Kurzman interviewed before his genocide in 1984. Kurzman demonstrates that Hitler wanted a Vatican neutralized since he suspicion a pope had aided a overpower of Mussolini in 1943 and feared that a Church's personality would malign a Final Solution in ubiquitous and a approaching deportation of Rome's Jews in particular. Wolff and others in Rome, meanwhile, hoped to use a pope as an surrogate for a negotiated assent and an Anglo-American-German debate opposite a Soviets. Kurzman also touches on such associated topics as a 1933 Nazi-Vatican Concordat, how Pius's overpower on a murder of a Jews was partly secure in extreme fears of a Soviet takeover of a Vatican, and a unusual purpose of Rome's arch rabbi, Israel Zolli, who eventually converted to Catholicism. Kurzman does a good pursuit of revelation a suspenseful and little-known story of WWII intrigue. (June)
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By Sep 1943, a waves of conflict had incited opposite Germany. As a Russian army usually modernized from a east, British and American bombers were shortening German cities to rubble. As Hitler's earthy and mental condition deteriorated, he mostly due extravagantly forward and unreal schemes. One of those concerned invading a Vatican and seizing a pope. According to Kurzman, a former unfamiliar correspondent, a tract was critical and was to be implemented by SS General Karl Wolff, who was Kurzman's principal source for this intense, absorbing, though not entirely convincing tale. According to Wolff, he foiled a devise by check while receiving a pope's overpower as a SS dull adult Italian Jews and ecstatic them to a genocide camps. As seen here, Wolff is arrogant, cynical, and manipulative. Still, he seems to have been sanctified with a grade of personal charm, not utterly wise a check as a monster. Some of his claims seem credible, though others can never be verified; his comment is a furious float installed with startling twists and turns. Jay Freeman
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"If a Hollywood film doesn't outcome from this book, I'll eat my hat." -- History Wire.com, 6/24/07
"One of a many unusual episodes of [WWII]...This fascinating book is a usually one to tell a full...story." -- Nottingham Evening Post (UK), 6/22/07
"This is a constrained review and belongs in each extensive World War II collection." -- Library Journal, 5/1/07
By Dan Kurzman
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #1130818 in Books
- Published on: 2007-05-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 304 pages
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From Publishers Weekly
Veteran renouned historian Kurzman (The Bravest Battle) relates how a Hitler-Himmler sequence in 1943 to kidnap a pope and seize Vatican files and treasures was twice behind and finally undermined by a organisation of high German officers and officials in Rome. The foilers were headed by a SS personality in Italy, Gen. Karl Wolff, whom Kurzman interviewed before his genocide in 1984. Kurzman demonstrates that Hitler wanted a Vatican neutralized since he suspicion a pope had aided a overpower of Mussolini in 1943 and feared that a Church's personality would malign a Final Solution in ubiquitous and a approaching deportation of Rome's Jews in particular. Wolff and others in Rome, meanwhile, hoped to use a pope as an surrogate for a negotiated assent and an Anglo-American-German debate opposite a Soviets. Kurzman also touches on such associated topics as a 1933 Nazi-Vatican Concordat, how Pius's overpower on a murder of a Jews was partly secure in extreme fears of a Soviet takeover of a Vatican, and a unusual purpose of Rome's arch rabbi, Israel Zolli, who eventually converted to Catholicism. Kurzman does a good pursuit of revelation a suspenseful and little-known story of WWII intrigue. (June)
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By Sep 1943, a waves of conflict had incited opposite Germany. As a Russian army usually modernized from a east, British and American bombers were shortening German cities to rubble. As Hitler's earthy and mental condition deteriorated, he mostly due extravagantly forward and unreal schemes. One of those concerned invading a Vatican and seizing a pope. According to Kurzman, a former unfamiliar correspondent, a tract was critical and was to be implemented by SS General Karl Wolff, who was Kurzman's principal source for this intense, absorbing, though not entirely convincing tale. According to Wolff, he foiled a devise by check while receiving a pope's overpower as a SS dull adult Italian Jews and ecstatic them to a genocide camps. As seen here, Wolff is arrogant, cynical, and manipulative. Still, he seems to have been sanctified with a grade of personal charm, not utterly wise a check as a monster. Some of his claims seem credible, though others can never be verified; his comment is a furious float installed with startling twists and turns. Jay Freeman
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"If a Hollywood film doesn't outcome from this book, I'll eat my hat." -- History Wire.com, 6/24/07
"One of a many unusual episodes of [WWII]...This fascinating book is a usually one to tell a full...story." -- Nottingham Evening Post (UK), 6/22/07
"This is a constrained review and belongs in each extensive World War II collection." -- Library Journal, 5/1/07
By Dan Kurzman
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