Who was Pope during World War II?

Player #7850667, No that is false. The truth is the Pope hid Jews inside the Vatican while Vatican City was literally surrounded by Nazi soldiers. The Pope also permitted and encouraged all the Catholic clergy and nuns in Italy to hide Jews in their churches, convents, and monasteries if they believed that they could do so safely. Many Jews hid in convents dressed as nuns

When priests and nuns were gathered up with Jews and other undesirables in the catacombs of Rome, Pius XII did not chose to file any complaint with the Gestapo. Pius XII was more concerned with the Godless Communists taking over than the atrocities being committed by the Nazis and their fascist cohorts in inhumanity.

Pius XII would not have changed the course of history had he threatened to, or actually did, excommunicate any Catholic supporting the Nazis. Just the contrary, he issued Papal prohibitions against any Catholic clergy from providing aid or sanctuary to any persons deemed to be "Undesirables" by the Nazis. The list of Undesirables included: Jews, Romany (Gypsies,) Gays, mental deficients (the insane as well as Down's syndrome, hydrocephilitcs, etc.,) the chronically infirmed (including the elderly.)

Considering the high percentage of Roman Catholics in the Axis countries, it is difficult to believe that