Vatican documents show secret back channel between Pope Pius XII and Adolph Hitler (interview with David Kertzer)
"Pius XII was afraid of, certainly in the first years of the war, that the Nazis were going to win. And so he felt he had to plan for a Europe that was going to be under Nazi control with their pal Mussolini helping out," David Kertzer in an interview with PBS News Hour on the findings in his new book.
June 7, 2022 PBS News Hour