Rome's Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni
said Monday that he does not think the archives on the papacy of
Pius XII that the Vatican had released will show the World War
II pope was actually working behind the scenes to help Jews
during the Holocaust.
"This sensationalism is highly suspicious, with files that
are ready and easy conclusions laid out on a tray," Di Segni
told ANSA.
"But it does not take much to realise that the scarcity of
revelations will become a boomerang for the apologists at all
costs.
"It can be clearly seen that there was no desire to stop the
train of October 16 (1943 that took Jews detained in Rome to
Nazi death camps) and that the help was targeted to protect
people who'd been baptized."
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