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- Title
Verschlossen, verwechselt, verlegt, verbrannt: Das Schicksal der Weihnachtsansprache Pius' XII. von 1942.
- Authors
Wolf, Hubert
- Abstract
The 1942 Christmas Address is seen as the only text, in which Pope Pius XII publicly commented on the Holocaust. After the opening of the Vatican Archives in March 2020 it has become possible to retrace the genesis of the text from the first German draft by social ethicist Gustav Grundlach to the final printed Italian version. Here the central question is, whether the passage, which can be related to the Shoah, can be traced back to Pius XII himself and which circumstances made the Pope drop his long-lasting restraint. Finally, the conceptual and reception history is covered. How was it understood, and who was the Pope addressing? Here some critical attention is also directed at the handling of Vatican sources by the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences.
- Subjects
VATICAN City; PIUS XII, Pope, 1876-1958; CHRISTMAS; HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945; POPES; ARCHIVES
- Publication
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 2022, Vol 70, Issue 4, p723
- ISSN
0042-5702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/vfzg-2022-0041