Guerra 1939

• Notes by the Secretariat of State

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• Varia 1, orig.
• English
• 1940
• Not available.
• Updated 6 years ago

The notes list measures that were undertaken by the Holy See Secretariat of State in favour of refugees and war prisoners. Lists of Polish prisoners were sent by apostolic nuncios in Lithuania and Romania; lists of Polish refugees were sent by apostolic nuncios in Latvia, Romania and Hungary. The apostolic nuncios in Germany replied that in the German Reich the Wehrmachtsauskunftsstelle für Kriegsverluste und Kriegsgefangene and the Red Cross are responsible for the issue. It also reports that charity organisations « Oeuvre des Prisonniers » in Lorient (France) and « Aide morale et matériel...

• Edward Reed to the Nuncio to Italy Borgongini Duca

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• Polacchi-Civili-Pol. 10, orig.)
• English
• 1940
• Not available.
• Updated 6 years ago

Reed asks Borgongini Duca to inform the Secretariat of State of the Holy See that, according to information received by the Government of the United States from its Embassy in Moscow, the Soviet authorities have refused to undertake investigations on behalf of the Government of the United States for the purpose of ascertaining the whereabouts in the Soviet Union of persons who are not American citizens. It is in the understanding of United States Government, says Reed, that persons of Polish nationality now in Soviet-occupied Poland are considered by the Soviet Government to be citizens of ...