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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Life and Career of Aloisius Muench -- Chapter 2: Excusing the Holocaust -- Chapter 3: Comfort and Consensus -- Chapter 4: Granting Absolution -- Chapter 5: The Longest Hatred -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

The International Tracing Service holdings -- "Our mothers, our fathers" : Lahnstein -- Jewish voices -- Hour zero : the year 1945 -- Imagining the refugee -- Appendix I. The International Tracing Service holdings by subunit -- Appendix II. Finding aids for the International Tracing Service holdings

"The first of April, 1933, marked the initiation of state-sponsored, centrally-directed Nazi persecution of the Jewish population following the seizure of power by the National Socialists. How did the Catholics respond? Vatican Secret Archive materials were opened to researchers in Rome in 2003 and in 2006. Based on the records of the Vatican nunciature in Munich and Berlin during the tenure of Pope Pius XI (1922-1939), this publication offers a glimpse of the pressures faced by the German episcopate and, in turn, the Holy See in Rome as growing numbers of German Catholics hoped to find a way to be both good Nazis and good Catholics

This book examines Vatican diplomacy from the fall of the Papal States in 1870 to the present day. The contributors focus on the concept of permanent neutrality and trace the Vatican's political transformation into a modern international institution in conjunction with its use of neutrality as a tool of diplomacy and statecraft.