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• [1] Shalmon Bernstein from Brooklyn NY July 09, 2007 - 12:17PM

  Your guest in claiming a lack of anti-semitism on the Pope's part stated that that the Pope was not influenced by race. Are we still referring to Jews as a "race"?

  
  
• [2] Jeffrey Slott from Queens, NY July 09, 2007 - 12:18PM

  Hmmm, Hitler was worried that if Pope Pius spoke out against him, that would "demoralize" German Catholics, especially those in his army, and Pope Pius was worried that if he spoke out against Hitler, German Catholics would be at risk of Hitler's wrath. A bit confusing, yes...?

  
  
• [3] Marie M. Merzon from Kent Cliffs, NY July 09, 2007 - 12:20PM

  Dear Leonard, I am having difficulty listening to yet another apologist for the role of the Catholic Church during WW2. I cannot believe that this apologist had the chutzpa to state that Pius had a Jewish friend...how sweet.

  You are doing a heroic job challenging this fool but could you resist having these idiots on the show in the future? By the way, my visit to Auschwitz and the Italian building there provided me with vastly differnt numbers than those quoted by Kurzman. After the War, ten percent of the Italian Jewish population were left in Italy. The community has been rebuilt by the influx of Iranian Jews and others from the mid-east.

  I know.....from personal experience. MM Merzon

  
  
• [4] Gary McCardell from Lookout Mountain, TN July 09, 2007 - 12:24PM

  You should ask your guest about the bravery of the Vatican in opposing Bismark in contrast with its fearfulness in dealing with Hitler.

  
  
• [5] Harry Yabbats from NYC July 09, 2007 - 12:48PM

  Hitler wasn't afraid of the Pope. It was the other way around. The fact is Catholics by the hundreds of thousands were killed for their beliefs and their sympathies. Priests throughout Europe ran an underground railroad of people and information. That network could have easily been dismantled by the Nazis through killing and imprisoning MORE priests THAN THEY HAD ! It would be supremely dumb to jeopardize all this for empty moral rectitude that the world was combating anyway.

  
  
• [6] superfancy July 09, 2007 - 03:51PM

  Catholicism would have *died* if the Pope went up against Hitler??

  Even my local supermarket manager has more of an ego than the one this man attributes to "The Pope."

  Balderdash.

  
  
• [7] michael drake from New York City July 10, 2007 - 12:49AM

  Amazingly the “Beaufication” of Pius the 10 has reared its ugly head again, a leader of millions of Catholics. sat (and ate) while under his window Jews were rounded up for execution a stones throw from the Vatican . . .as it has come to light there was a superb intelligence network, so he was more than well informed as to the extermination and the genocide of millions of innocents . . . .as for his “Beaufication “ it asking Catholics to reward his behavior.

  The Pope always claims to have “The Ear of God” if this therefore be true why his silence?, sorry Leonard perhaps your author can come up with some deceptive analogy.

  
  
• [8] Jeanette July 11, 2007 - 01:11PM

  After reading some of these comments, I can see that those making them did not actually read the book. If after reading it, anyone wants to refute the research or the contributing interviews on which it was based, then it can only be assumed they are in posession of a different set of research material. There is also another question to be asked....and that question should be directed to the Jewish survivors and their descendents...Was it worth it to have accepted whatever protection they had and survived or should they have joined the murdered for the sake of making a grand stand against Hitler?