Hi Christine, Here's more news about the role of the Vatican in WW2.
A new report by the State Department says Catholic priests in Rome helped Croatian leaders, who sent up to 700,000 Serbs, Jews and others to death camps, to hide in Italy after the war and eventually flee to South America. The report, which focuses on how Nazi gold was shipped through neutral countries to finance the German war effort, points out that much of its information, from British and American intelligence files, could not be confirmed.
But the report says it is quite likely that the Vatican was aware of the efforts by priests at the San Girolamo Croatian College in Rome to help the Ustasha, as the Croatian fascist rulers were known....
nytimes.com
I'm wondering why this is not being discussed on dateline or something, and not stuck in the middle of the paper, where few people tread. A big can of worms? Oh, that's right. It's impolite to ask religious figures about such things. They wouldn't want to embarrass them, would they?
Del
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