The Scarlet and the Black — Italy
Irish Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty operates a Vatican escape network from Rome — hiding thousands of Allied POWs and Jews from the Gestapo under the protection of Vatican neutrality.
Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (1898-1963) hid an estimated 4,000 Allied soldiers and Jews in Vatican City and Rome from 1943 to 1944. SS Colonel Herbert Kappler placed a white line around St. Peter's Square that O'Flaherty was forbidden to cross — but he organised a vast network of safe houses throughout the city. After the war, O'Flaherty visited Kappler in prison and converted him to Catholicism.