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Unholy Trinity Paperback – June 15, 1998
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Mark Aarons
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Print length420 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherSt. Martin's Griffin
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Publication dateJune 15, 1998
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Dimensions6.25 x 1.05 x 9.25 inches
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ISBN-10031218199X
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ISBN-13978-0312181994
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“Meticulously researched, carefully documented...The shadow of these accusations still hangs heavy and dark over the twentieth-century Church.” ―Morris West, author of The Shoes of the Fisherman
“Impossible to put down.” ―Publishers Weekly
“Head-spinning documentation of how Vatican immunity shielded Nazi war criminals from just punishment.” ―Kirkus Reviews
“[Unholy Trinity] is an important and meticulously researched piece of work and deserves the sort of massive readership reserved for books that the British government ham-fistedly attempts to ban.” ―The Literary Review
About the Author
Mark Aarons is an international award-winning investigative reporter and the author of several books on intelligence-related issues. He exposed Nazi war criminals in Australia, where he lives, and prompted changes to Australian federal law.
Attorney John Loftus is the author of four histories of intelligence operations. As former prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department's Nazi-hunting unit, he had unprecedented access to top-secret CIA and NATO archives. He lives in Florida. Together Aarons and Loftus are the authors of The Secret War Against the Jews.
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- Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin; Revised edition (June 15, 1998)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 420 pages
- ISBN-10 : 031218199X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0312181994
- Item Weight : 1.35 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.25 x 1.05 x 9.25 inches
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The original title of this book is "Ratlines". Ratlines, a nautical term, is used in this context to describe the method by which Nazi war criminals escaped from Germany and Austria to a first point of safety (usually Italy) and thence to points beyond in Europe, North America, Australasia, and especially to South America. These escapes were facilitated by the Allied powers, but would not have been possible without the help of the Vatican.
This newer edition is titled "Unholy Trinity", and features the portraits of Pope Pius XII, Hitler and Stalin on the cover. The subtitle is "The Vatican, the Nazis, and the Swiss banks". Then why is Stalin on the cover? Also, when describing the ratlines, one cannot omit the USA and Britain. Unholy Pentagon? I think the newer title was invented by the publishers who thought that it was catchier than the original, but "Ratlines" remains a much better way to encapsulate the book. That said, the most intriguing character of the book is a Russian spy, Prince Anton Vasilevich Turkul, described by the authors as "arguably the greatest professional spy of the twentieth century".
I found the central chapters of this book heavy going due to the complicated nature of the narrative, the great number of Central European characters with similar looking names, and the alphabet soup of acronyms for what must be dozens of organizations. The book could have benefited from a cast of characters and an acronym guide. I recommend that readers make their own list of acronyms as they read, because most of them are not indexed.
Co-author John Loftus is a self-proclaimed Irish Catholic. I have heard him describe himself as such several times on Dave Emory's 'For the Record' radio programs. I mention this because one of the detractors of Unholy Trinity labelled the book anti-Catholic propaganda. The authors are not anti-Catholic, rather they are anti-Vatican. By the same token, I might criticize the government of the USA, but that doesn't mean that I am anti-American. I sensed that the authors were very disappointed and perhaps surprised by the unethical actions on the part of the Vatican elite. I suspect that as a Catholic himself, Mr. Loftus expected more from the Catholic church hierarchy than non-Catholics might expect.
My next comment may not mean much to readers who are unfamiliar with the concept of the Nazi capital flight network, as detailed in Paul Manning's "Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile". Please refer to that landmark book, reviewed on Amazon, and available as a free download if you look for it. Paul Manning's thesis was that Martin Bormann survived WWII, moved to South America via the ratlines, and exercised control over the Nazi flight capital, i.e., Nazi war loot, that was later used to create the "great economic miracle" that was the West German economy of 1948-51. My biggest disappointment with "Unholy Trinity" was the short shrift given to Paul Manning's thesis. They mention it briefly, but in such a way that I'm not convinced they fully appreciated it, even though it coincides with and complements their arguments.
Despite those few misgivings and difficulties with the book, I recommend it highly and rate it five stars.
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However, the British and the Americans are also to blame, since they supported the so-called "anti-Communist" guerilla groups in Eastern Europe (in actuality, fascist murderers who's hands were drenched in blood). As for Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) he was a moral coward who never spoke out against Nazi atrocities and even blessed the genocidal maniac, Ante Pavelic of the so-called "Independent State of Croatia" in 1941 and again in 1943, when he knew full well that Pavelic was butchering innocent civilians, Serbs, Jews, Romas, and Communists. Simply put, "undesirable" elements, or "untermenschen" as the Nazis would say.
Well worth the read!
