Prisoner in the Vatican the Basilica of St. John Lateran, situated on the opposite side of the city of Rome, and to travel regularly to their summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, from Rome. Prisoner in the Vatican A prisoner in the Vatican or prisoner of the Vatican (; ) is how Pope Pius IX was described following the capture of Rome by the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy on 20 September 1870. Part of the process of Italian unification, the city's capture ended the millennial temporal rule of the popes over central Italy and allowed Rome to be designated the capital of
The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican "Jasenovac, das jugoslawische Auschwitz und der Vatikan" published by Ahriman-Verlag GmbH (January 31, 2001). The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican is a book written by Vladimir Dedijer, World War II Yugoslav Partisan and revolutionary, a university professor and a human rights activist.The book is a shortened version of Dedijer's two books written in Serbian: "Vatikan i Jasenovac" and "Vatikan i Jasenovac Dokumenti", published by Rad Publishing House Belgrade in 1987. It was published in English under the title, "The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican: The Croatian Massacre of the Serbs During World War II"