The Vatican and the Third Reich: An Unholy Alliance

At first glance, Nazism and Catholicism are diametrically opposed. The Vatican even seems an institution beyond all suspicion. The Church, however, faced in turn with the rise of Nazism, the Second World War and the extermination of Jews, will play an ambiguous, at times unholy, role. Several men of the Church, priests and bishops, being fervent admirers of Hitler, will even fall into complicity.