Vatican archivist finds letter on Nazi crimes

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A Vatican archivist discovered a letter from a Jesuit priest in Germany to Pope Pius XII's secretary, reporting Nazi crimes in a Polish concentration camp. The letter details daily incinerations of Poles and Jews in 1942. It suggests more correspondence existed, which has not been found yet.

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