Pope Francis has released closed archives as recent as 2019, one of them being the archive of Pius XII. In this archive, a detailed letter disclosed the horrors that jews endured in Belzec, a death camp in Poland. Also in the letter, an appendix with the names of detained priests in a camp near Munich. This information is important as it makes it almost 99% certain that the Pope was aware of the war crimes used by Nazis in only 1942. Even more damning, was that this letter was amongst the Pope's personal papers. It's speculated that the Pope did not react out of fear of communism and the Nazi's treatment of catholicism. Either way, we have proof that the church was aware of genocide a while before the general public.
By Maddie Dames
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/16/world/europe/pope-pius-holocaust.html
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