A special mission
Hitler's secret plot to seize the Vatican and kidnap Pope Pius XII
by Dan Kurzman
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In September, 1943, Adolf Hitler, furious at the ouster of Mussolini, sent German troops into Rome with plans to deport Rome's Jews to Auschwitz. Hitler also ordered SS General Karl Wolff, who had been Heinrich Himmler's chief aide, to occupy the Vatican and kidnap Pope Pius XII. But Wolff began playing a dangerous game: stalling Hitler's kidnap plot, while blackmailing the pope into silence as the Jews were rounded up. This tale of intrigue and betrayal is one of the most important untold stories of World War II, and A Special Mission is the only book to give the full incredible account of Hitler's kidnap plot and its far-reaching consequences. - Publisher.
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Catholic Church, Foreign relations, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Political kidnapping, Strategic aspects, Strategic aspects of Vatican City, Large type books, Pius xii, pope, 1876-1958, Catholic church, foreign relations, Germany, foreign relations, catholic church, Vatican cityPeople
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Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII
May 26, 2008, Da Capo Press
Paperback
in English
0306816172 9780306816178
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A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series)
September 19, 2007, Thorndike Press
Hardcover
in English
- Lrg edition
0786298464 9780786298464
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A special mission: Hitler's secret plot to seize the Vatican and kidnap Pope Pius XII
2007, Da Capo Press
in English
0306814684 9780306814686
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A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius the XII
May 30, 2007, Perseus Books Group
Hardcover
in English
0306814684 9780306814686
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