Vatican to post secret WWII documents online

February 14, 2010

ROME (JTA) -- The Vatican plans to post selected documents from its World War II secret archives online, according to a Catholic news agency.

The move came at the initiative of Pave the Way, a U.S.-based foundation that promotes interfaith dialogue and has striven to counter criticism that wartime Pope Pius XII ignored Jewish suffering during the Holocaust, Zenit news agency reported Friday.

Pave the Way offered to digitize some 5,125 descriptions and copies of documents from the closed section of the Vatican archives, from the period of March 1939 to May 1945, Zenit reported. These would then be posted on the Web sites of both the Vatican and Pave the Way. the rest