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The Vatican's silence when confronted with Nazi atrocities remains one of the fantastic controversies in our time. Record has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him "Hitler's Pope". But a key area of the story has remained untold. Pius ran the world's most significant church, smallest status, and oldest spy service. Saintly but secretive, he skimmed from cathedral charities to pay covert couriers and surreptitiously tape-recorded his conferences with top Nazis. When he learned of the Holocaust, Pius played his cards near to his torso. He sent birthday credit cards to Hitler - while secretly plotting to eliminate him. Chapel of Spies documents this cloak-and-dagger intrigue in surprising aspect. Gun-toting Jesuits stole plans to Hitler's homes. A Catholic publication publisher flew a activities plane in the Alps with secrets filched from the top of Hitler's bodyguard. The keeper of the Vatican crypt ran a spy ring that betrayed German war programs and wounded Hitler in a briefcase bombing. The plotters made history in ways they hardly expected. They encouraged European unification, forged a US-Vatican alliance that spanned the Cool Warfare, and challenged Chapel teachings on Jews. Yet Pius' magic formula war muted his general population reaction to Nazi crimes. Fearing that overt protest would impede his covert activities, he never spoke the "fiery words" he required. Advised with heart-pounding suspense, based on magic formula transcripts and unsealed documents, Chapel of Spies throws open up the Vatican's gates to reveal a few of the most astonishing incidents in the history of the papacy. The effect is an unprecedented audiobook that will change perceptions of how the world's very best moral institution achieved the best moral crisis in history.
