Vatican to open archives of Pius XII, the WW2 pope accused of silence on the Holocaust

Pope Francis has announced that the Vatican will open the archives of the wartime pope whose failure to speak out against the Nazis during World War Two earned him the nickname 'Hitler's pope'.

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Nazi war criminal gets Italian memorial

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