TELEGRAM SHOWS VATICAN KNEW OF HOLOCAUST BEFORE IT CLAIMED

'Telegram Contradicts Vatican's Official Version of When it Learned of Holocaust' (NYSun)

"The man who later became Pope John XXIII tried in vain to challenge the Vatican's perceived indifference to the Nazi Holocaust, a new study has found," the BBC reports.

Papers and diaries show then Archbishop Giuseppe Roncalli posted an urgent telegram in 1944 to Pope Pius XII on the atrocities at Auschwitz. The telegram's date contradicts the Vatican's official version of when it received a report ...

The letters show that Roncalli was frustrated by the Vatican's silence in the face of what was emerging in Europe. They show that in 1943, the archbishop took it upon himself to write to the president of Slovakia asking him to stop the Nazi deportation of Jews ...

Vatican officials, when asked about the alleged discrepancy, suggested the question be directed to historians of the period. But while all of the archbishop's correspondence with his Church superiors has been preserved in the Vatican archives, the part that could clarify when he sent the details has not been made available to scholars.