VATICAN CITY — The Vatican will release archives documenting its
relations with Germany in the years before World War II in an effort to
counter criticism of papacy actions during the Holocaust.
But the Vatican said Saturday that a chunk of the archive dating
from 1931 to 1934 was "nearly completely destroyed or
dispersed" during the 1945 bombing of Berlin and a fire at the apostolic nuncio's
palace.
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