The Rome daily, II Tempo, accepted today a proposal from an unnamed Italian Jew and began a subscription campaign for a monument in memory of the late Pope Pius XII.
The anonymous Jew, in making the proposal in a letter to the newspaper, said he was one of “many Jews” who were saved by the late Pontiff. The role of Pius XII during the Nazi period has become an object of debate because of a widely performed play. “The Deputy,” by a West German playwright, Rolf Hochhut. The them of the play is that the Pope failed to do all that he might have to save European Jewry from the Nazi mass slaughter.
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