Cesare Orsenigo
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Cesare Vincenzo Orsenigo was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Apostolic Nuncio to Germany from 1930 to 1945, during the rise of Nazi Germany and World War II. Along with the Ger
Orsenigo with Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop, January 1939
Pope Pius XI, a friend of Orsenigo in Milan who appointed him to all three of his nunciatures
Orsenigo shaking hands with Joseph Goebbels
Goebbels, Hitler, Orsenigo, and Italian ambassador Vittorio Cerruti at a reception for foreign press in Berlin
Kurt Gerstein
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Kurt Gerstein was a German mining engineer, a member of the Nazi Party from 1933, of the SA in 1934, and later head of the SS Hygiene Institute from 1941 in Berlin.
Cesare Orsenigo
…nuncio to discuss incidents concerning Jewish victims with Nazi officials, he did so timidly and with embarrassment." In 1941, Orsenigo was contacted by Kurt Gerstein, a Protestant SS officer who had personally witnessed the extermination of Jews and wished to notify the Vatican. Informed of the purpose of Gerstein's…
Kurt Gerstein wearing SS "Germania" collar tab
The former University of Marburg.
Saarbrücken: headquarters of the Saar coalfields.
At the Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen concentration camp.