Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumThe International Tracing Service, one of the largest Holocaust-related archival repositories in the world, holds millions of documents that enrich our understanding of the many forms of persecution during the Nazi era and its continued repercussions ever since. Drawing on a selection of recently available documents from the archive, this essential resource provides new insights into human decision-making in g...

American-born Cardinal Aloisius Muench (1889-1962) was a key figure in German and German-American Catholic responses to the Holocaust, Jews, and Judaism between 1946 and 1959. He was arguably the most powerful American Catholic figure and an influential Vatican representative in occupied Germany and in West Germany after the war. In this carefully researched book, which draws on Muench’s collected papers, Suzanne Brown-Fleming offers the first assessment of Muench’s legacy and provides a r...

The essays in this book cover a fast-paced 150 years of Vatican diplomacy, starting from the fall of the Papal States in 1870 to the present day. They trace the transformation of the Vatican from a state like any other to an entity uniquely providing spiritual and moral sustenance in world affairs. In particular, the book details the Holy See’s use of neutrality as a tool and the principal statecraft in its diplomatic portmanteau. This concept of “permanent neutrality,” as codified in the ...

Michael Kardinal von Faulhaber führte als Erzbischof von München und Freising zwischen 1917 und 1952 akribisch Tagebuch. Die einzigartigen Aufzeichnungen erlauben tiefe Einblicke in seinen Alltag und seine unzähligen Gespräche in einer Zeit dramatischer Umbrüche: von der Monarchie über die Weimarer Republik und die NS-Diktatur bis hin zur Besatzungsherrschaft und den Anfängen der Bonner Republik. Wie ließen sich die rasanten politischen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen mit der Vorstell...