Catholic Nun Killed at Auschwitz for Trying to Help Jews

Roman Catholic apologists can’t erase Vatican connection to Hitler

By Greg Szymanski, JD

Dec 25, 2010

Since World War II, U.S. television networks and Hollywood producers have aired more than 6,000 documentaries about Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, Hitler’s life and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

It seems every week since the 1950s a Nazi documentary appears, however, never will any of them ever tell the truth about the Vatican connection. Never once will any of these documentaries tell how Pope Pius XII was instrumental in putting Hitler into power.

And never will any of these documentaries ever trace how the Nazis, like Stalin and Russia, were funded by the U.S and Great Britain.

In fact, the scar of backing the Nazis has never quite been removed from the Vatican’s public image, but the Roman Catholic hierarchy has done a good job in marginalizing and covering up any bad publicity.

But two stories that never get much press, even among Vatican critics, is first the slaughter of 1,000 Jews taken from a neighborhood in Rome right at the doorstep of Pius XII, who turned a blind eye and did nothng to stop the killings.

And the second is a story about a little known letter written by a Catholic nun who tried to alert the Vatican about the inhuman treatment of Jews in Germany.

Not only did the Vatican hierarchy again turn a blind eye but they later had the nun carted away and murdered at Auschwitz.

Here is the letter:

In 1933, Sister Edith wrote to Pope Pius XI, warning about persecution and hatred levied against the Jews. Stein implored for intervention against this inhumanity. In her letter to the Pope she wrote:

““As a child of the Jewish people who, by the grace of God, for the past eleven years has also been a child of the Catholic Church, I dare to speak to the Father of Christianity about that which oppresses millions of Germans. For weeks we have seen deeds perpetrated in Germany which mock any sense of justice and humanity, not to mention love of neighbor. To read the rest of this article subscribe now!