John Cornwell

Does he present the truth with objective analysis, or does he distort it with a hidden agenda ?

Let us consider the cover of John Cornwell’s book who shows an actual photograph of Cardinal Pacelli before he became Pope.


Original image of John Cornwell’s cover to his book Hitler’s Pope published in Europe and which provides the date of 1939.

Actual Photograph below from which was altered to produce the book covers above.

These questions below are not mine, but what others have asked.

Why does the Pope consort with the Nazi’s ?
Why is the SS officer saluting the Pope ?

Here are photo's of helmets, [or "Stahlhelm" German for “steel helmet”] in
question
 

One point I want to clarify: The German occupation of Rome lasted from September 8, 1943-June 4, 1944.


Professor Rychalk confirms that the soldiers in the picture are from the Weimar Republic, before the Nazi’s took over. And that the picture was taken in 1927, as admitted in a later edition of Cornwell’s book.

 See

http://home.olemiss.edu/~rrychlak/morphing/outsideframe.htm

CORNWELL'S POPE:
"A NASTY CARICATURE OF A NOBLE AND SAINTLY MAN"
Point by Point Rebuttal by Church Historian Dr. Peter Gumpel
ZENIT - september 16, 1999

Typical is the fact that thousands of Polish and other priests were killed by the Nazis and that the standard work of Professor Dr. Ulrich von Hehl (now in its third edition): "Priester unter Hitlers Terror" (Priests -- in Germany -- Under the Terror of Hitler) is never mentioned or quoted by Cornwell. On the whole, one must say that Cornwell, who has never lived in a highly organized criminal police state, is totally unaware of the situation prevailing in such a state and that, in consequence, a great many of his judgements, appraisals, suggestions, etc., are completely unrealistic, utopian and anachronistic.  From an historical point of view, one must be able to understand the situation as it was then and not judge it with the hindsight from today’s situation in free countries. To proceed in such an irresponsible manner is a capital mistake which is everywhere present in the book of Cornwell.

CORNWELL'S ERRORS: REVIEWING HITLER'S POPE
Ronald J. Rychlak

 [See this section for the real motives of John Cornwell and the hidden agenda behind his book.]  

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