The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome

Patrick Gallo

Description

On October 16, 1943, the Jews of Rome were targeted for arrest and deportation. The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome examines why—and more importantly how—it could have been avoided, featuring new evidence and insight into the Vatican’s involvement. At the time, Rome was within reach of the Allies, but the overwhelming force of the Wehrmacht, Gestapo, and SS in Rome precluded direct confrontation. Moral condemnations would not have worked, nor would direct confrontation by the Italians, Jewish leadership, or even the Vatican.

Gallo underscores the necessity of determining what courses of actions most likely would have spared Italian Jews from the gas chambers. Examining the historical context and avoiding normative or counterfactual assertions, this book draws upon archival sources ranging from diaries to intelligence intercepts in English, Italian, and German.

With antisemitism on the rise today and the last remaining witnesses passing away, it is essential to understand what happened in 1943. The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome grapples with this particular, awful episode within the larger, horrifying story of the Holocaust. Despite the inadequacy of memory, we must continue to attempt to make sense of the inexplicable.

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Chief

2. Germany’s Fanatic Determination to Fight

3. I’ll Go Right into the Vatican

4. I Wanted to Make an Air Drop in Rome

5. The Worst Horrors of the Nazi Regime

6. Do Not Worry

7. Like a City of the Dead

8. The Reincarnation of the Dying Corpse

9. I Have a Special Mission for You

10. A Final Solution to the Jewish Question

11. We Must Disperse the People

12. The Byzantine Christ

13. If You Pay, No Harm Will Come to You

14. We Had the Moral Right

15. Keep Out of All Questions Concerning Jews

16. Like Autumn Leaves Lay Waiting

17. Los! Raus! Schnel!

18. It Is Simply Impossible to Refuse

19. Let’s Go Make a Few Phone Calls

20. Train X70469

21. Numbers 1581–158639

22. These Jews Will Never Return to Their Homes

23. He Is No Longer Our Rabbi

24. A Connection to the Pope

25. We Have Contended with Diabolical Forces

26. I Was Only an Executor of Orders

Epilogue: I Must Go Back and Tell

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Holocaust
• Histoire
• Josef Muller
• Roma (serie de televisión)
• Segunda Guerra Mundial
• Ciudad del Vaticano
• Jews
• Kappler
• Black Saturday
• The Holocaust
• Catholicism
• Italian Jews
• Catholic Church
• Allies
• World War II
• Pope Pius XII
• Italy
• Final Solution
• Auschwitz concentration camp
• My Last Duchess
• Rome
• Adolf Hitler
• Poland
• History
• Dannecker
• Pietro Badoglio
• Wolff
• Heinrich Himmler
• Auschwitz
• Benito Mussolini
• Holocauste
• Vatican
• Seconde Guerre mondiale

Informations

• Publié par: Purdue University Press
• Date de parution: 15 février 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781612497884
• Langue: English

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The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome

The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome

Patrick J. Gallo

Purdue University Press • West Lafayette, Indiana