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The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler October 22, 2015
The Vatican and Pope Pius XII are routinely criticized for silence and inaction during World War II and the Holocaust. Some commentators go as far as calling Pius XII   "Hitler's Pope." But after years of digging through Vatican and German archives, Mark Riebling found new evidence for a story that historians have known for decades: that the pontiff kept up good relations with Hitler for diplomatic reasons, all the while secretly plotting to kill him.

Mark Riebling, historian and author of Church of Spies: the Pope's Secret War Against Hitler 
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