Again about a certain historical lie...

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This is a passage from the introduction to Notes on the Diplomatic History of the
Jewish Question, by Lucien Wolf, written in 1919 for the use of the Versailles Peace Conference:

Besides helping to indicate the lines on which Jewish action should travel in this matter, the State Papers here quoted may also serve to remind the Plenipotentiaries

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[shezan]

But this is absolutely riveting! Available on line? In a library somewhere?

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Project Gutenberg. However, the thing to find is the authority quoted by Wolf, that is Stern: Urkundliche Beiträge über die Stellung der Päpste zu den Juden. My German is only moderate, but next time I'm in the British Library I'll certainly look it up.

[shezan]

... and the thing can even be bought on BookFinder

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Holy thundering Athena! Did you see the date on it? I thought that was concerned with WWI and preceding period, but this book was published in 1893! Dites-moi, mon amie, just how many decades' worth of lies have been shoved down our collective throats?

[cheyinka]

That was part of what made The Myth of Hitler's Pope (by David Dalin) such an interesting read for me; he not only debunked the lie that Pius XII did nothing (or did less than he should have) for the Jews, he pointed out that Pius XII wasn't even the first Pope to do something like that, which I hadn't known - despite having gone to Catholic school and considering myself to know at least a reasonable amount about the history of the Catholic Church.

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I knew of that in general terms, but the precise period this concerns is the nineteenth century, in which the Papacy was fighting for its life and generally aligned with reactionary forces. This is hugely important.

[cheyinka]

And, see, I didn't even know it in general terms, much less know enough to wonder whether it was also the case in the nineteenth century :/

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You might like to read this, if you haven't already: http://community.livejournal.com/fpb_de_fide/1203.html