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
Pope Pius XII
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Pope Pius XII was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 2 March 1939 until his death on 9 October 1958. Pius reigned as pope during a highly consequential 19 years that includ
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…the German ambassador to the Vatican, Diego von Bergen and later Ernst von Weizsäcker, Orsenigo was the direct diplomatic link between Pope Pius XI and Pope Pius XII and the Nazi regime, meeting several times with Adolf Hitler directly and frequently with other high-ranking officials and diplomats. Orsenigo was close…
Pius XII, c. 1951
Pio XII Luis Fernández Laguna 1958
Eugenio Pacelli at the age of six in 1882
Pacelli on the day of his ordination: 2 April 1899