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Pope Pius XII famously stayed silent as Italy's Jews were carted away to concentration camps. Was the pope worried he would be dethroned or killed, or that the newly-independent Vatican would be reabsorbed into Italy? How complicit was the pope?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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