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

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

Dan Kurzman

304 pages • first pub 2007 (view editions)

nonfiction history religion informative sad tense medium-paced
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In 9/43, Adolf Hitler, furious at the ouster of Mussolini, sent German troops into Rome & ordered SS General Karl Wolff, who had been Heinrich Himmler’s chief aide, to occupy the Vatican & kidnap (perhaps, kill) Pope Pius XII. At the same ...

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