US Relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950 Provides a wealth of unique correspondence, reports and analyses, memos of conversations, and personal interviews exploring such themes U.S.-Vatican relations, Vatican's role in World War II, Jewish refugees, Italian anti-Jewish laws during the papacy of Pius XII, and the pope's personal knowledge of the treatment of European Jews. Includes telegrams, dispatches, reports, and letters between Myron Taylor and his staff, the State Department, other US government agencies, the Vatican, and the Italian government. There are materials on political affairs, Jews, refugee and relief activities, German-owned property in Rome, property rights, the Vatican Bank, Axis diplomats, war criminals, protocols and religious statements, and records of the peace efforts of the Vatican.