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WW2 in Real Time: The Vatican at War - Episode Guide

Season 1

Part I

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jun 15, 2022 (20 min)

Part I

Pope Pius XI is the first Pope to guide the Catholic Church through the age of fascism. How has his Vatican responded to Fascists Italy and Nazi Germany, and what is the geopolitical position of the Papacy on the eve of war of World War Two?

Part II

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jun 15, 2022 (19 min)

Part II

Pope Pius XII never publicly spoke out against the Holocaust. Why? Did he not care? Was he a coward? Or did he think his silence was saving lives and Catholic souls?

Part III

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jun 16, 2022 (25 min)

Part III

The Vatican and the Nazis have had an uneasy truce throughout the 1930s. But that ends now. As ever more of Europe's Catholics come under attack from Hitler's war machine, the Pope finds himself supporting the German resistance in their plot to kill the Führer.

Part IV

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jun 18, 2022 (23 min)

Part IV

The Vatican and the Nazis have had an uneasy truce throughout the 1930s. But that ends now. As ever more of Europe's Catholics come under attack from Hitler's war machine, the Pope finds himself supporting the German resistance in their plot to kill the Führer.

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