The Myth of Hitler's Pope

Pope Pius XII and His Secret War Against Nazi Germany

By: David G. Dalin

Narrated by: Michael Floyd

Rabbi Dalin explodes the resurrected, widely accepted, yet bankrupt smearing of Pope Pius XII, whom Jewish survivors of the Holocaust considered "a righteous gentile". With devastating scholarship and unblinking honesty, he sets the record straight in an audiobook that should shame haters of the pope, inspire conservative Christians, and sound a warning about the deep roots of Islamofascism.

©2005 David G. Dalin (P)2014 Regnery Publishing

great information, great reader, case made well

as a student of History, I have always been a bit puzzled by the accusations of Pope Pius the 12th being a friend to Hitler. it did not fit with his past when he was a cardinal and in the Diplomatic Corps of the Vatican.

Rabbi Dalin absolutely Torpedoes any conception that Pius the 12th did anything except act as a friend of the Jewish people before, during, and after World War II.

the book is direct, entertaining, and provides the reader with information that is not commonly at one's fingertips.

the reader, Michael Floyd, does a marvelous job!

as a result of the combination, it took me very little time to finish the entire book.

I cannot suggest the book enough oh, it is one that I will need to buy a hard copy of as well.

Setting the story straight.

This is a magnificent book. It clearly sets out a solid defense of Pope Pius XII, particularly in reference to his efforts to protect European Jews during World War II. The fact that this story is told from a Jewish perspective makes it that much more valuable.

Mit indeffiteegabel schloppiness

Any additional comments?

It's a great pity that such an important book is narrated so badly. The author deals with significant historical and religious issues and I wanted to listen with all possible concentration, but was often pulled up short by bad or peculiar pronunciation by the reader — in English and other languages. Examples:

Apostolic: e-POS-te-lick or even e-posse-lis-tic
Calumny: calmuny (unless I'm guitly of mishearing)
Eichmann: eck-men (but later on the standard English pronunciation "eick-man")
Bramante: bra-min-TAY
Pisa: pee-ZAH
Mantua: men-TOOHA
Padua: pe-DOOHA
Balfour: bal-FOUR
Mit brennender Sorge: mit brennender SAW-DGZ (audio pronunciation clips of the phrase can be found on the Web with no difficulty at all)
Anschluss: ahn-slosh (like "schloss", a castle)
Nasser: nah-SAIR
Egidio da Viterbo: egidio DAAH viterbo
Fichte: fitch (I guess it was Fikh-tuh or /ˈfɪxtə/, because Knee-Chee was mentioned in the same context)
Kulturkampf: kul-cher kampf
Zeitung: zee-tong
Norwich: nor-witch
Indefatigably: in-deffi-teeg-e-bli (or something impressively similar)

If you are going to narrate a book of this nature, you could surely make some attempt to find out how to use a generally acceptable pronunciation of unusual or non-English words or proper names. For the listener, one of the added advantages of an audiobook is to hear standard pronunciations by professional readers of uncommon terms or names. "Pe-selli" is acceptable for "Pacelli", but the occasional "pe-silly" is not. (Perhaps /paˈtʃɛlli/ would have been preferable for this text.) The reading is all the more silly because the narrator seems to be striving for a nasal, Brit-imperial academic lecturing tone. It is to be hoped that other readers will forge ahead indeffiteegabli and stay the course for the sake of the content of this compelling book.

Rabbi Dalin certainly has his own scimitar to grind, but he does so with scholarly integrity. By all means buy this audiobook, and try to mis-listen the mispronunciations.

Good information but a bit dry

A very insitful book on Pius 12th, but a bit dry. I would have like more personal story on Plus. Large portion on Muslim and Liberal antisemitism.

Dispels many misconceptions!

I had heard there was controversy on weather the pope had done enough to try and prevent the holo cost. This book does an excellent job in defending the popes actions in defending the Jews!