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Wartime Pope Pius XII knew details about the Nazi attempt to exterminate Jews in the Holocaust as early as 1942, according to a letter found in the Vatican archives that conflicts with the Holy See's official position at the time that the information it had was vague and unverified. The yellowed, typewritten letter, reproduced in Italy's Corriere della Sera on.
In the letter, Father Lother Koenig tells pope’s personal secretary at Vatican, Father Robert Leiber, that sources had confirmed about 6,000 Poles and Jews a day were being killed in “SS-furnaces” at Belzec camp.
The yellowed letter, dated Dec. 14, 1942, was written by an anti-Nazi German Jesuit named Father Lothar König and addressed to the personal secretary of Pope Pius XII, another German cleric named Father Robert Leiber.