During the Second World War, Pope Pius XII maintained links to the German resistance to Nazism against Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. Although remaining publicly neutral, Pius advised the British in 1940
Josef Müller was sent to Rome in 1939 by the German resistance, to seek assistance from the Pope in a plot to overthrow Hitler.
Colonel General Ludwig Beck, a key figure in the German resistance, secretly advised the Pope of plots against Hitler through emissaries.
Pius XII, by Michael Pitcairn, 1951
Hans Bernd Gisevius
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Gustav-Adolf Timotheus Hans Bernd Gisevius was a German politician, Gestapo and Abwehr officer and diplomat during the Second World War. He was a member of the Military Resistance, who actively partic
Frick in his cell at Nuremberg, November 1945
