JWST 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Pope Pius Xii
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Pope pius could not have stopped the holocaust, but even without public protest, he could have communicated with church leaders throughout europe, admonishing those who distained the. Jews and encouraged them to provide shelter for jews. In 1941, two german bishops heard that 10,000 jews would be sent from austria to the general government and asked each other whether the episcopacy should intervene out of humanitarian concern. Pius almost never said a word about jews in his writings to others. Pius blamed the us for not allowing jews to emigrate and the fact they made it difficult for them. Because of food rationing and frequent relocation of refugees, rescue work was more of a group activity than individual work. Since polish catholics had been the first victims of nazi aggression and had felt abandoned by the papacy, any vatican support of. More poles would have been swayed to help rescue jews if they had known the work had rome"s blessing.
