Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust

A portrait of Pope Pius XII (1876-1958), head of the Catholic Church from 1939 until his death, who, during World War II, and while European Jews were being exterminated by the Nazis, was accused of keeping a disconcerting and shameful silence.

Top Cast

Hildegard Meier

Self - Narrator (voice)

David I. Kertzer

Self - Historian

Klaus Kühlwein

Self - Catholic Theologist

Emma Fattorini

Self - Historian

Pope Pius XII

Self (archive footage)