This compelling documentary investigates the dark, ambiguous ties between the Vatican and the Third Reich before, during, and after World War II. It confronts the controversial silence of Pope Pius XII during the horrors of the Holocaust alongside the radical actions of high-ranking Catholic figures who openly embraced the Nazi regime. Ultimately, the film uncovers the shocking post-war networks within the Church that actively helped notorious Nazi war criminals evade justice and escape Europe.
Disclaimer : Calling Pius XII a “collaborator” is historically inaccurate: he never supported Hitler’s war effort, nor did he share his doctrine. On the other hand, the terms “complicity by omission” or “moral failure” are now widely used by many historians. His obsession with diplomatic neutrality and the protection of the Church as an institution led him to observe a tragic pastoral silence in the face of the greatest crime of the 20th century.
