Nothing Sacred: Nazi Espionage Against the Vatican 1939-1945
Nothing Sacred: Nazi Espionage Against the Vatican 1939-1945
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Author(s): Alvarez, David
ISBN No.: 9780716526544
Pages: 304
Year: 199711
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 51.83
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Nothing Sacred is the first book to document the Nazi espionage campaign against the Vatican in the Second World War. Nazi Germany considered the Catholic Church to be a serious threat to its domestic security and its international ambitions. In Germany, Hitler's agents recruited informants to provide intelligence on Church finances, and on the political views and activities of bishops, priests and lay Catholics. In Rome, however, German attempts to penetrate the Papacy were less successful, with the efforts of the local Gestapo office proving largely futile. For example, a plan to use a Roman seminary as a secret radio station and cover for German intelligence officers masquerading as seminarians had to be abandoned, in part because the first group of officers proved more interested in women than the cloistered life.


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