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Explores Pope Pius the Twelfth's secret plans against Adolf Hitler during World War II, discussing Jesuits who stole blueprints to Hitler's homes, a Catholic book publisher who flew a sports plane over the Alps with secrets stolen from the leader of Hitler's bodygaurd, spies and more.

Hitler's Pope is the previously untold story of the man who was arguably the most dangerous churchman in modern history: Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII, Pontiff from 1939 to 1958 and long controversial as the Pope who failed to speak out against Hitler's Final Solution. Here is the full story of how Pacelli in fact prompted events in the 1920s and '30s that helped sweep the Nazis to unhindered power.

Argues that Pope Pius XII was not in league with Adolf Hitler, but that Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, was Hitler's staunch ally and a promoter of the Holocaust.

Investigates the actions of the Catholic Church and of individual Catholics during the Holocaust, from the emergence of Hitler in 1930 until the Church's official rejection of antisemitism in 1965.

The question of whether Pius XII and the Vatican should be blamed for failing to act decisively in response to Hitler's final solution is as hotly debated today as in was in the years directly following World War II. This book presents the observations of an American diplomat who spent four years inside the Vatican during World War II and chronicles his own role in assisting and hiding escaped prisoners of war.

Explore Pope Pius XII's role in World War II, discussing how his policies lead people to believe he supported Hitler's acts in Nazi Germany.