The Michael Knowles Show - Introducing The Pope and the Führer: The Secret Vatican Files of World War II with Michael Knowles
Aired: 2025-08-17
Duration: 01:47


=== Pope Pius XII Revisited (01:47) ===

[00:00:00]  These are questions that take cultures thousands of years to answer.
[00:00:04]  During Answer the Call, I take questions from people just like you about their problems, opportunities, challenges, or when they simply need advice.
[00:00:12]  How do I balance all of this grief, responsibility?
[00:00:15]  How do you repair this kind of damage?
[00:00:18]  My daughter, Michaela, guides the conversations as we hopefully help people navigate their lives.
[00:00:24]  Everyone has their own destiny.
[00:00:31]  They say history is written by the victors, but what if the victors got it wrong?
[00:00:36]  For 80 years, Pope Pius XII has been smeared as the Pope of Silence, a bystander to one of the greatest evils in history.
[00:00:44]  Now, with access to the Vatican's wartime archives, we can finally get to the real question.
[00:00:51]  Was Pius XII truly silent, just quiet?
[00:00:56]  Or is he in fact the most misunderstood figure of the Second World War?
[00:01:00]  I'm Michael Knowles.
[00:01:01]  In my four-part investigative series, The Pope and the Führer, The Secret Vatican Files of World War II, I follow the encrypted messages, buried documents, and backroom diplomacy that reveal a different story.
[00:01:12]  It's the untold battle between two men, Adolf Hitler and Pope Pius XII.
[00:01:16]  One preached domination, the other salvation.
[00:01:19]  Their battlefield, Europe.
[00:01:21]  Their weapons, propaganda on the one hand, and on the other, discretion and truth.
[00:01:29]  You will hear what Hitler really thought of the Catholic Church.
[00:01:32]  You will discover how Vatican diplomats tried to thwart the final solution.
[00:01:35]  And yes, we will examine the uncomfortable questions about silence, complicity, and the cost of speaking out when the world is burning.
[00:01:42]  The truth is no longer buried.
[00:01:44]  The Pope and the Führer is now streaming only on Dailywire Plus.