VATICAN MISSION AND MISSION OF REPATRIATIONS (FRANCE-GERMANY, 17TH JANUARY, 1944 - 28TH AUGUST, 1947)

Dated July 7, 1946 and without a signature on the report, can there be any argument? There might well be. One year later, August 28, 1947 to be exact, the mission of the Vatican, the origins and actions of which he describes, will be cut short. The idea came to the Chaplain General of prisoners of war in France in September/October 1944. Its establishment was difficult, but, with the approval of the provisional government and in the wake of the Allied armies crossing the Rhine, the first group of trucks under the papal flag left Paris on April 12, 1945. The point here is that the Vatican's missionary activity was divided into three groups based on the zones occupied by the French, the English and the Americans in Germany. In order to justify the activity of chaplains and to demonstrate their utilitybased on the history of these missions, it must be noted that every effort is being made to recall the spiritual presence of the Church in the lost territories of the Reich in German prisons and camps. Although this sounds a bit like a 'swan song', such is the purpose of this report.