Cesare Vincenzo Orsenigo was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Apostolic Nuncio to Germany from 1930 to 1945, during the rise of Nazi Germany and World War II.
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Pope Pius XI, a friend of Orsenigo in Milan who appointed him to all three of his nunciatures
Orsenigo shaking hands with Joseph Goebbels
Goebbels, Hitler, Orsenigo, and Italian ambassador Vittorio Cerruti at a reception for foreign press in Berlin
Hitler with Orsenigo in 1935
Cardinal Theodor Innitzer was among the contemporary critics of Orsenigo.Writers born in the 1870s 6
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Cesare Vincenzo Orsenigo was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Apostolic Nuncio to Germany from 1930 to 1945, during the rise of Nazi Germany and World War II. Along with the German ambassador to the Vatican, Diego von Bergen and later Ernst von Weizsäcker, Orsenigo was the direct diplomatic link between Pope Pius XI and Pope Pius XII and the Nazi regime, meeting several times with Adolf Hitler directly and frequently with other high-ranking officials and diplomats.
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