Cold War calculations led to a divided Germany and U.S. It still remains unclear as to who dropped those first bombs on the Vatican.īombs were dropped again on Vatican City State on 1 March 1944, killing one person and injuring another.After the surrender of Germany and Japan, the two world powers maneuvered for decades to increase their spheres of influence around the globe, spurred on by competing ambitions and ideologies of capitalism and communism. The intermediary position of the Church allowed it to move better to defend and help those in need. It was not easy to hide in Rome, and the Vatican offered protection and exile to those who needed it most.
Throught the war the Pope and the Vatican helped many members of the Italian resistance. Upon learning of the possible motivation behind the attack, Pope Pius XII asked that the reasons for the attack not be spread by the media, in an attempt to maintain the neutrality of the State. But each theory, still remains just a theory. clues led to ideas and ideas to theories: from the idea that the bombs had been manufactured in the UK to an intercepted phone call between two priests. In America, a new theory was developed soon after. Ferrari also claimed that the only two pilots with the name Parmeggiani were elsewhere, and working with the Allies. 79 yet Alegi and Cappellari claim that the Italian Aeronautica only possessed one of these planes and that it could not, at that time, have been geographically located in Viterbo under German control. Ferrari claimed that the plane used was a Savoia Marchetti S.M. This claim was contested one year later, in 2011, by subsequent research (such as that of Gregory Alegi and that of Pietro Cappellari). It is believed that the pilot was "a certain Parmeggiani", and that the plane had been flown from Viterbo, some 50km from Rome. It describes the possibility that the attack had been orchestrated by the Germans and coordinated by the Fascist Roberto Farinacci, whose aim was to bomb Vatican Radio, that was suspected of transmitting valuable military information to the Anglo-Americans. One of the theories, following certain clues, was published in the 2010 Italian book “1943: Bombe in Vaticano” by Augusto Ferrari. The Allies and Axis powers accused each other. Nobody took responsibility for the bombs. Peter in the narrow strip of land that still remains.” that there no longer exists, I do not say Christian conscience, but even the minimum of human understanding and a sense of loyalty in acting that should be enough to leave the successor of St. And more concretely, we are struck by the need to recognise. Pope Pius XII commented, in private, that “there was more respect in Cairo, as the religious center of Islam, than in Rome. Peter's Station the second one fell on the terrace of the Mosaic Studio a third one behind the Governorate Palace and a fourth one in the Vatican Gardens in a location that I could not identify at the moment.” Pope’s reaction The first of them fell on the escarpment near the boundary wall of the Vatican City State on the side of St. I almost immediately heard a hiss and a prolonged burst that gave me the impression of the almost simultaneous explosion of several bombs. It flew over the Vatican Railway Station and then went a little further away and immediately turned back. From the noise of the engine it seemed to me that the aircraft was coming from the northeast.
I could not see it, prevented by the darkness. “I distinctly heard the continuous noise of an aircraft flying at low altitude. He was on duty at the Vatican train station: One gendarme, Luigi Turchetto, wrote a note to the Vatican’s Noble Guards, in which he recounted what happened that night. Luckily no one was hurt, but many of the buildings suffered huge damage, and guards were left dazed and confused after the explosions knocked them to the ground. This is partly why the attack came as such a surprise: five bombs (one of which did not detonate) were dropped into the Vatican gardens from an unidentified aircraft. It was 5 November 1943, World War II was raging and Vatican City was, and remained, a neutral state.
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