I think

that it would be the only way the Vatican could help Jews and still remain in control of its own state.


Pope Benedict XVI says Vatican saved Jews 'discreetly'

At some point in the war, when the truth of the death camps was public, I don't think Hitler and Mussolini would have been too 'frightened' of what the world would think to not invade the Vatican. I believe the Pope did what he could and many scholars agree with that...

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