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Pope Pius XII, or Euqenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pace III, was a pope in the Roman Catholic Church during World War 2. He was born March 2, 1876 in Rome, Italy to a family that was part of the [a[a; mobility which devoted their service in the Vatican Pope Pius XII was famous for his service to the Catholic Church from 1939 to his death in 1958. During his reign, he observed World War 2 from 1939 to 1945. Nazi fascist and soviet regimes, the Holocaust, and the threat of Communism and the Cold War. Though he hoped to serve as a “Pope of Peace”, he unsuccessfully tried to stop European governments from war. Pius did not want to anger fascist Italy and Nazi Germany by issuing Catholic laws. When Germany invaded Poland on sept. 1. 1939, Pius did not condemn the aggression. The pope as indifferent in many of his judgements to the war. Pope Pius XII died at his summer palace at Castel Gajdolfor, Italy on October 9,1958. During his reign, he did not turn blind eye to the suffering that occurred because of the war. He choose to use diplomacy to aid the persecuted.