Hitler's Pope

This biography discusses Pope Pius XIII’s wartime silence over the Holocaust and exposes the patent anti-Semitism that led to his fateful concordance with Hitler – a partnership that smoothed the Nazis’ path to power and saw the Vatican immensely enriched – financially and politically. In examining Eugenio Pacelli’s early career and subsequent rise to papal apotheosis, the author firmly indicts a Pope whom many regard as the most powerful churchman in modern history; one never held to account for the conduct of himself or his church during one of humanity’s darkest hours.

Author Biography

John Cornwell is an award-winning journalist and author. His Hitler’s Pope- The Secret History of Pius XII was a world bestseller. He has written on scientific issues for a number of periodicals, including New Scientist and the Sunday Times Magazine. His book of the 1995 Prozac trial, Power to Harm- Mind, Murder and Drugs on Trial, was widely acclaimed, and he is the editor of a trilogy of science books- Nature’s Imagination, Consciousness and Human Identity and Explanations. He is Director of the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge, and a member of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University.