Tom Rivers - ABC News - September 18, 2023 - KRDO’s Morning News

A newly discovered letter seems to suggest that World War II era Pope Pius XII had detailed information about Nazi atrocities during the war. The correspondence seems to show detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that at least 6000 Jews and Poles were being gassed each day in German-occupied Poland. The documentation undercuts the Holy See’s argument that it couldn’t verify diplomatic reports of Nazi atrocities to denounce them. The document from the Vatican archives was released this weekend by Italian daily Corriere della Sera. Corriere is reproducing a letter dated Dec. 14, 1942 from the German Jesuit priest to Pius’ secretary which is contained in an upcoming book about the newly opened files of Pius’ pontificate by Giovanni Coco, a researcher and archivist in the Vatican’s Apostolic Archives.