Rome - Italy's Roman Catholic Church helped the Nazis by laundering money and supplying intelligence about Allied invasion plans, according to declassified documents.
Clerics collaborated with the secret service of Hitler's SS while their flock was rebelling against the retreating German army. The documents, part of a trove of 400,000 second World War British and US intelligence reports declassified last week, raise fresh questions about the Vatican's relationship with the Nazis.