It is ironic that 60 years after the Holocaust -- with anti-Semitism virulent among Islamic fundamentalists and growing rapidly among secular Europeans -- that the liberal media in the West has tried to blame Pope Pius XII (and even the Catholic Church as a whole) for anti-Semitism. Was Pope Pius XII secretly in league with Adolf Hitler? No, says Rabbi David G. Dalin, author of the revealing new book "The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis" (Regnery, July 2005). In fact, as Pope Pius XII worked to save Jews from the Nazis, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, became Hitler's staunch ally and a promoter of the Holocaust, with a legacy that feeds radical Islam today.
In his book, Dalin explodes the myth of Hitler's pope and condemns the myth-makers for not only rewriting history, but also for denying the testimony of Holocaust survivors, hijacking the Holocaust for unseemly political ends, and ignoring the real threat to the Jewish people.
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