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Mussolini asked Pope to excommunicate Hitler By Bruce Johnston in Rome (Filed: 27/09/2003)
The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini asked the Pope to excommunicate Adolf Hitler days before the German leader went to Rome to seal the Axis in 1938, according to a newly discovered Vatican document.
The only other way of stopping Hitler was to wage war, an option that was "not wanted", Mussolini is reported as saying.
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I'm not sure what the point of the article is supposed to be. Is the author claiming that excommunicating Hitler would have stopped WWII and the Holocaust (something I have doubts about), and so those can be blamed on Pope Pius XI instead, or that Mussolini knew the Pope well enough to ask him to do that (not necessarily surprising, given the location of the Vatican), or is it something else?
-- Ronn! :)
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