00000nam a2200000 c 4500 1174908610 DE-101 20200828030035.0 tu 190108s2015 xxu||||| |||| 00||||eng 2015024814 DE-101 1174908610 UK 017495236 9780465022298 Festeinband : EUR 25.20 978-0-465-02229-8 0465022294 0-465-02229-4 (DE-599)DNB1174908610 (OCoLC)ocn903675848 (OCoLC)903675848 1131 ger DE-101 9999 eng XD-US BX1378 lcc Riebling, Mark aut Church of spies the Pope's secret war against Hitler Mark Riebling New York Basic Books [2015] viii, 375 pages 25 cm Text txt rdacontent ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen n rdamedia Band nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-357) and index Darkness over the earth -- The end of Germany -- Joey Ox -- Extraordinary affairs -- The Pope is very interested -- Luck of the devil -- The Keller affair -- Absolute secrecy -- The X-report -- Warnings to the West -- The brown birds -- Forging the iron -- Conversations in the crypt -- Prague fatale -- A bottle of cognac -- The Siegfried blueprints -- Interrogations -- Prisoner of the Vatican -- D-Day -- X-Day -- The trove -- Hell -- The gallows -- Shoot them all! -- We cherished the hope. Zusammenfassung: History has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him "Hitler's Pope." Riebling shows that, in reality, Pius ran the world's largest church, smallest state, and oldest spy service. Skimming from church charities to pay covert couriers, and surreptitiously tape-recording meetings with top Nazis, Pius played sent birthday cards to Hitler-- while secretly plotting to kill him. Fearing that overt protest would impede his covert actions, he muted his public response to Nazi crimes. Katholische Kirche gnd Drittes Reich gnd (lcsh)Pius--XII,--Pope, 1876-1958. (fast)Pius--XII,--Pope, 1876-1958 Pius--XII,--Pope, 1876-1958. (lcsh)Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Germany. (fast)Catholic Church. Catholic Church. (fast)World War (1939-1945) (fast)1939-1945 (lcsh)World War, 1939-1945--Vatican City. (lcsh)World War, 1939-1945--Religious aspects--Catholic Church. (lcsh)Anti-Nazi movement--Vatican City. (sao)Diplomatiska förbindelser--historia. (sao)Andra världskriget 1939-1945. (sao)Antinazism. (fast)Anti-Nazi movement. (fast)Diplomatic relations. (fast)International relations. (lcsh)Germany--Foreign relations--Catholic Church. (fast)Germany. (fast)Vatican City. Germany. rg