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Hitler’s plot to kidnap the Pope | Full Comment | National Post

Posted by Joseph & Jazmin on July 9, 2013

Hitler’s plot to kidnap the Pope | Full Comment | National Post.

An undated portrait of German Nazi Chancellor Adolf Hitler, and a picture of Pope Pius XII dated 1958.

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