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The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler de David I. Kertzer

The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler

Autor David I. Kertzer
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 noi 2022

Bazându-ne pe arhivele Vaticanului recent deschise cercetării, observăm în The Pope at War o reconstrucție istorică ce clarifică poziția ambiguă a Sfântului Scaun în timpul celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial. David I. Kertzer finalizează astfel o trilogie ambițioasă despre relația papalității cu regimurile totalitare, oferind o perspectivă documentată asupra modului în care Pius al XII-lea a navigat între presiunile Germaniei naziste și ororile Holocaustului. Remarcăm rigoarea cu care autorul tratează descoperirea negocierilor secrete din 1939 dintre Papă și un emisar al lui Hitler, un detaliu care a rămas ascuns timp de decenii chiar și diplomaților de rang înalt.

Subliniem că acest volum acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum lucrarea Hitler's Pope de John Cornwell, însă abordarea lui Kertzer este considerabil mai ancorată în dovezi de arhivă primară, oferind o analiză factuală sobră care evită judecățile morale facile în favoarea unei expuneri cronologice dense. Dacă în The Pope and Mussolini autorul explora simbioza dintre Pius al XI-lea și fascismul italian, aici accentul cade pe tăcerea strategică și diplomația de culise a succesorului său. Stilul narativ este unul echilibrat, susținut de 40 de ilustrații și hărți care ajută la vizualizarea contextului geopolitic complex. Lucrarea nu se limitează la figura pontifului, ci analizează și modul în care ierarhia catolică italiană a sprijinit efortul de război al Axei, în timp ce discursurile publice papale erau formulate astfel încât să poată fi interpretate favorabil de ambele tabere aflate în conflict.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780192890733
ISBN-10: 0192890735
Pagini: 672
Ilustrații: 40 black and white illustrations/maps
Dimensiuni: 160 x 240 x 55 mm
Greutate: 0.94 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru cei interesați de istoria Europei și de rolul diplomației religioase în situații de criză extremă. Cititorul câștigă acces la informații inedite extrase direct din arhivele secrete, înțelegând mecanismele decizionale ale Vaticanului în fața expansiunii naziste. Este o recomandare solidă pentru istorici și studenți, oferind o perspectivă obiectivă asupra uneia dintre cele mai controversate figuri ale secolului XX.

Despre autor

David I. Kertzer este profesor de științe sociale, antropologie și istorie la Brown University, fiind recunoscut la nivel internațional pentru cercetările sale asupra istoriei Italiei și a Vaticanului. Laureat al Premiului Pulitzer pentru The Pope and Mussolini, Kertzer și-a dedicat o mare parte din carieră explorării intersecției dintre politică, ritual și religie. Printre lucrările sale de referință se numără The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara și Prisoner Of The Vatican, volume care demonstrează capacitatea sa de a transforma cercetarea academică riguroasă în narațiuni istorice accesibile și captivante.

Descriere

Filled with discoveries, this is the dramatic story of Pope Pius XII's struggle to respond to the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Nazi domination of Europe.The Pope at War is the third in a trilogy of books about the papacy's response to the rise of Fascism and Nazism. It tells the dramatic story of Pope Pius XII's struggle to respond to the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the ongoing Nazi attempts to exterminate the Jews of Europe. It is the first book dealing with the war to make extensive use of the newly opened Vatican archives for the war years. It is based, as well, on thousands of documents from the Italian, German, French, British, and American archives. Among the many new discoveries brought to light is the discovery that within weeks of becoming pope in 1939, Pius XII entered into secret negotiations with Hitler through Hitler's emissary, a Nazi Prince who was married to the daughter of the King of Italy and who was very close to Hitler. The negotiations were kept so secret that not even the German ambassador to the Holy See was informed of them. The book also offers new insight into the thinking behind Pius XII's decision to maintain good relations with the German government during the war, including keeping the Germans happy while they occupied Rome in 1943-1944. And throughout, David I. Kertzer shows the active role of the Italian Church hierarchy in promoting the Axis war while the pope, who as bishop of Rome was responsible for the Italian hierarchy, offered his silent blessings and cast his public speeches in such a way that both sides could claim support for their cause.

Recenzii

Magnificent... Kertzer is a gifted writer ... He is also to be congratulated on avoiding polemic. It would have been easy, given the evidence, to have suffused the pages with moral outrage. But because he lays the facts bare and presents all sides of the argument, he lets readers come to their own conclusion. And that conclusion ought to be a devastating one ... What a tragedy, the reader might think after finishing this groundbreaking book, that the Pope did not "love" the Jews as much as he "loved" Germany.
The Pope at War is the idea that it does not matter whether we are popes, prime ministers, or chancellors. Rather, our failings and shortcomings as individuals (of any station) can result in crimes whose magnitude boggles the mind; thus, even as we castigate the pontiff, we look inwards in ways at once discomfiting and necessary.
An engrossing, often exciting and sometimes moving book.
The Pope at War shares with its two predecessors a dramatic sense of history.
Compelling
...One of the best accounts of [Pius, the] wartime pontificate. Kertzer had already acquired a reputation as an elegant stylist with a commanding gift for explanation. That reputation will be further burnished by this tome.
A book, which, to all intents and unequivocal purposes, is even more rightly pugilist in its undertaking, than those for whom power and the ducking and diving of the truth has become an elongated second nature of distorted discourse.
A thorough exploration of the Vatican archives for the pontificate of Pope Pius XII has long been awaited. David I. Kertzer's splendid book now provides it, presenting a plethora of highly unflattering evidence of the pope's role during the Second World War and his silence regarding the Holocaust. The book ends much of the debate about the pope and surely makes any lingering apologia for his stance implausible.
A magisterial new study of how the Vatican navigated World War II and why Pope Pius XII stayed silent in the face of the mass murder of Jews.
Disputes over the role of Pope Pius XII in World War II have been hopelessly mired either in sanctimony or hostility because of gaps in the historical record. David Kertzer's supremely well-informed analysis of the newly opened Vatican archives now establishes once and for all the massive scale of the pope's moral failure in the face of Europe's conflagration and Hitler's murder of six million Jews. If the faint-hearted pope was no war criminal, he was surely no saint. With Kertzer's magnum opus, the book on Pius XII is written, the dispute resolved, case closed.
Not many expected the memory of Pope Pius XII's dealing with Jews during World War II to be sweetened by the recent opening of Vatican archives from that period. But who could have guessed how sordid the revelations would be? David I. Kertzer has the learning and courage to read the new documents and show what deep slime the Vatican was wading in during Pius XII's papacy. Brace yourself for a story full of horrors.
David I. Kertzer has outdone himself and crowned his extraordinary career with this volume on Pope Pius XII. He writes a simply riveting account with a worldwide cast of characters that includes Mussolini, Hitler, FDR, Churchill, and Eisenhower. This remarkably researched book is replete with revelations that deserve the adjective 'explosive' and with so much more. The book is a masterpiece.
Kertzerâ restricts himself for the most part to a sober, factual narrative, avoiding facile expressions of moral outrage.

Notă biografică

David I. Kertzer is Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies at Brown University, where he served as Paul Dupree, Jr. University Professor of Social Science, and from 2006 to 2011 as provost. He is the author of twelve books, including The Pope and Mussolini, also published by OUP and winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for biography; The Pope Who Would Be King (OUP, 2018), The Popes Against the Jews, a finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize; and The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, a finalist for the National Book Award in 1997. He has twice been awarded the Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies for the best book on Italian history, and in 2005 was elected to membership in the American Association of Arts and Sciences. He and his wife, Susan, live in Providence, Rhode Island, and Harpswell, Maine.