| God and the Fascists: The Vatican Alliance with Mussolini, Franco, Hitler, and Pavelic Contributor(s): Deschner, Karlheinz (Author) |
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ISBN: 1616148373 ISBN-13: 9781616148379 Publisher: Prometheus Books OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Church - History - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Fascism & Totalitarianism - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 282.090 |
| LCCN: 2013022365 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 9" (0.66 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian - Chronological Period - 1930's - Cultural Region - Balkan - Cultural Region - Germany - Cultural Region - Spanish - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Now available in English for the first time, a controversial work that indicts the Vatican for its actions before and during World War II. In the decade preceding the outbreak of World War II, the Vatican made a devil's bargain with fascist leaders. Anticipating that their regimes would eliminate a common enemy--namely Marxist-Leninist communism--two popes essentially collaborated with Hitler, Mussolini, and the fascist dictators in Spain (Franco) and Croatia (Pavelic). This is the damning indictment of this well-researched polemic, which for almost five decades in Germany has sparked controversy, outrage, and furious debate. Now it is available in English for the first time. Many will dismiss Deschner--who himself was raised and educated in a pious Catholic tradition--as someone who is obsessed with exposing the failings of the church of his upbringing. But he has marshaled so many facts and presented them with such painstaking care that his accusations cannot easily be ignored. The sheer weight of the evidence that he has brought together in this book raises a host of questions about a powerful institution that continues to exercise political influence to this day. |