{"id":100,"date":"2002-09-03T18:28:41","date_gmt":"2002-09-03T22:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=100"},"modified":"2002-09-03T18:28:41","modified_gmt":"2002-09-03T22:28:41","slug":"hitlers-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Hitler&#8217;s Pope?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Pope Pius XII wasn&#8217;t complicit in the Holocaust after all. My historian buddy Mark Riebling has many, many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pius12.com\">details<\/a>. Ordinarily I would not bestir myself over this controversy, but I make an exception because:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>Mark&#8217;s excellent book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secretpolicy.com\/wedge.html\">Wedge<\/a>, on the history of FBI-CIA relations, is out in paperback this fall, and I owe him a plug.\n<li>I manage and serve his sites.\n<li>The controversy is actually interesting. Pius&#8217;s reputation was destroyed by a work of fiction, <span class=\"booktitle\">The Deputy<\/span>, by the German playwright and agitprop specialist Rolf Hochhuth. It portayed Pius as aloof and utterly indifferent to the Holocaust. I read <span class=\"booktitle\">The Deputy<\/span> as a teenager, and being a remarkably backward teenager, I was convinced. There was one telling detail in the play, Pius constantly gargling with hydrochloric acid to keep his mouth fresh, that I think really sold me. I had to read quite a bit of actual history, twenty-five years later, to be unconvinced. This gives me a certain amount of sympathy for people who permit Oliver Stone&#8217;s movie <span class=\"booktitle\">JFK<\/span> to persuade them that the CIA killed Kennedy. Well, it doesn&#8217;t really. But maybe it should.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Pope Pius XII wasn&#8217;t complicit in the Holocaust after all. My historian buddy Mark Riebling has many, many details. Ordinarily I would not bestir myself over this controversy, but I make an exception because: Mark&#8217;s excellent book Wedge, on the history of FBI-CIA relations, is out in paperback this fall, and I owe him <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=100' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}