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Alleged plot to kidnap Pope Pius XII

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Wolff as the hero, whose "purpose" was to "impede the deportation of the Pope." According to Cornwell, Wolff was able to persuade Hitler to drop the plan. In Cornwell's view: "all the facts indicate, therefore, that an attempt to invade the Vatican and its properties, or to seize the Pope in response to a papal protest would have seriously hindered the Nazi war effort. And thus even Hitler came to acknowledge what Pacelli appeared to ignore: that the strongest social and political force in Italy in the autumn of 1943 was the Catholic Church, and that its scope for noncompliance with disruption was immense."
192:, in which Cornwell (who has no academic degrees in history, law, or theology) said he was the first and only person ever to be granted permission to visit the archive of the Vatican secretariat of state, had worked there for months on end, and discovered an unknown and highly compromising letter written by Pacelli on April 18, 1917, which, according to him, had lain there hidden as a time-bomb. All these statements are false and were declared as such in an official and authoritative statement issued by the Vatican in 313:(PWE) "found it excellent propaganda to put it about that Hitler was just about to kidnap the Pope". The British propaganda office fabricated at least two German wireless broadcasts in support of the theory, building upon a pre-existing "rumour". First, on October 9, 1943, the British released a fake German broadcast claiming that all preparations had been made for such a kidnapping. Then, two days later, another falsified transmission stated that the 291: 20: 345:, concur with Chadwick, concluding that "the evidence concerning an alleged plot to kidnap the pope is, at best, mixed". Noting that such a kidnapping would have outraged Catholics around the world and seriously destabilized the Third Reich's occupation of majority Catholic nations, Alvarez and Graham argue that Allied propagandists "did not shrink from the opportunity" to claim such a plot. 924: 80: 353:
Historians have yet to uncover a single piece of contemporary evidence indicating that Hitler, Himmler, Bormann, or any other authority had any serious intention, let alone plan, to invade Vatican City and carry out Pope Pius XII. As for all the smoke, the recollections are post-war and suspiciously
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by Dan Kurzman, a promoter of the theory, Deák noted Kurzman's "credulity" and that the latter "uncritically accepts the validity of controversial documents and unquestioningly believes in the statements made to him by his principal German interlocutor, the former SS General Karl Wolff". He further
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Osborne himself considered the odds of such a kidnapping incredibly unlikely, as the Pope's presence in the Vatican prevented the British from bombing the key communications center of the German army in Southern Italy, which was adjacent. Weizsäcker, the German ambassador, had already ensured that
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published in 1991, and on personal interviews with Wolff before his death in 1984. Wolff maintained that on 13 September 1943, Hitler gave the directive to "occupy Vatican City, secure its files and art treasures, and take the Pope and Curia to the north". Hitler allegedly did not want the Pope to
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Alvarez and Graham cite the PWE fabrications mentioned by Chadwick, but also prior PWE propaganda pieces featuring various claims about the Pope contemplating abandoning the Vatican due to Axis threats. Although such rumors were picked up even by German diplomats, Alvarez and Graham conclude that
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in Rome." Cornwell's version centers on Wolff, but—unlike the account of other secondary authors—does not claim that the matter was not to be put in writing; in fact, Cornwell claims that Wolff "sent in about six to eight personnel reports." As with Wolff's own account, Cornwell casts
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has been questioned in regards to his treatment of the Pope by many other authors. Kenneth L. Woodward wrote that "Errors of fact and ignorance of context appear on almost every page." Dr. Peter Gumpel, S.J., an expert in the wartime period of Pope Pius XII's papacy, published a point-by-point
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Kurzman acknowledges that there are no official German documents that refer to the plot, claiming that Hitler prohibited the plot to be put in writing, and bases his book on personal interviews with Germans and Vatican officials. Kurzman's principal source is
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self-serving; the rumors and warnings second- and third-hand; the alleged plans and concentration of forces undocumented. The few bits of credible evidence that do exist suggest that, in fact, there was no plan to move against the Pope.
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in Italy, promoted the theory of an alleged plot. Most other allegations of such a plot are based on a 1972 document written by Wolff that
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to devise a plot to punish the Italian people by kidnapping or murdering Pius XII and the King of Italy. But, Lahousen said, Admiral
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in 1991, stating that such a plot existed but that all documents relating to it had been destroyed or lost; Rahn died in 1975.
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the Vatican itself would not be occupied by the Germans when they occupied Rome after the collapse of Mussolini's government.
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were also present at this meeting. According to Lahousen, Amè apparently spread the news and the plot was dropped.
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on October 13." Another scholar who addressed Cornwell's publication was Prof. Ronald Rychlak, with his book
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criticized the book's "modest documentation" containing "a great number of vague or inaccurate references".
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of Pius XII. Gumpel has claimed that Pius XII made plans to resign in the event of his kidnapping.
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rebuttal, including pointing out that "Before publication of the book , an article appeared in the
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British propagandists falsified transmissions claiming that the pope was to be imprisoned in
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on February 1, 1946 (Warnreise Testimony 1330-1430), said that Hitler had ordered the
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A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII
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A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII
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Born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, 2 March 1876 – 9 October 1958
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stated that he had been ordered on September 13, 1943, to kidnap the Pope.
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Woodward, Ken (September 27, 1999). "Review of Hitler's Pope".
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Nothing sacred: Nazi espionage against the Vatican, 1939-1945
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manuscript, 822ff, in the keeping of the Jesuit Curia at the
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when they occupied Rome during World War II. SS General
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Use of an unreliable source: the testimony of Karl Wolff
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Pope Pius XII
Pope Pius XII
Nazis
Karl Wolff
Karl Wolff
Supreme SS and Police Leader
Avvenire d'Italia
István Deák

Erwin von Lahousen
Generalmajor
Erwin von Lahousen
Nuremberg Trials
Reichssicherheitshauptamt
Wilhelm Canaris
Cesare Amè
Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven
Rudolf Rahn
Plenipotentiary
Italian Social Republic
Robert A. Graham
ADSS
30 Giorni
John Cornwell
Hitler's Pope
Borgo Santo Spirito
David G. Dalin
Dan Kurzman
The Washington Post

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