The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis

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Simon and Schuster, Mar 28, 2012 - Religion - 209 pages
Was Pope Pius XII secretly in league with Adolf Hitler?

No, says Rabbi David G. Dalin, but there was a cleric in league with Hitler: the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini. As Pope Pius XII worked to save Jews from the Nazis, the grand mufti became Hitler’s staunch ally and a promoter of the Holocaust, with a legacy that feeds radical Islam today.

In this shocking and thoroughly documented book, Rabbi Dalin explodes the myth of Hitler’s pope and condemns the mythmakers for not only rewriting history, but for denying the testimony of Holocaust survivors, hijacking the Holocaust for unseemly political ends, and ignoring the real threat to the Jewish people.
 

Contents

1 The Myth of Hitlers Pope and Why It Matters
1
2 Popes in Defense of the Jews
17
3 The Future Pope
45
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
69
5 The Liberal Media and the Culture Wars
111
Muslim AntiSemitism and the Continuing Islamic War against the Jews
127
7 John Paull II and Papal Condemnation of AntiSemitism
147
Acknowledgments
163
Notes
167
Index
193
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David G. Dalin, an ordained rabbi, is a professor of History and Political Science at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida. Rabbi Dalin is the author or coauthor of several books, including The Presidents of the United States and the Jews and (with Jonathan D. Sarna) Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience. His articles and reviews have appeared in American Jewish History, Commentary, Conservative Judaism, First Things, the Weekly Standard, and the American Jewish Year Book. He received his B.A. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, his M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University, and his Rabbinic Ordination from the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America.

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