A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII by Dan Kurzman

A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII

Dan Kurzman

285 pages • first pub 2007 (view editions)

nonfiction history religion informative sad tense medium-paced
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In September, 1943, Adolf Hitler, furious at the ouster of Mussolini, sent German troops into Rome with plans to deport Rome's Jews to Auschwitz. Hitler also ordered SS General Karl Wolff, who had been Heinrich Himmler's chief aide, to occupy the ...

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