CAS RN 384 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Avail, Pope Pius Xii, Supersessionism
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7. the church was a very conservative organization, still believed in supersessionism (the church superseded judaism and the people who believed in judaism were doomed to hell) find a very strong traditional decision. 8: pius the 12th (gino picelli) catholic representative of the papacy in berlin. Concordat - be silent to what the nazi s did- he initialed that: he served for a very long time as pope compared to others, was very fond of. Germany: the fact is that the 30s was a time of coming to an initial agreement that the vatican would not interfere with the nazis and vice versa, they did not make fuss of the anti-jewish policies. 5. the only opposition they made was to the treatment of jewish converts. 1. 1. converts were saved from deportation the church hierarchy supported all of the anti-semitic measures: the fact is when the order came to murder the jews and the gypsies, the bishops.