Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII
by
Dan Kurzman
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
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 Vatican and kidnap Pope Pius XII. But Wolff began playing...