Diego von Bergen [SEP] place of death
meeting with Pius XII that "hostility to Bolshevism is, in fact, the most stable component of Vatican foreign policy" and that the Vatican "detested" the link between the US and Soviet Russia—a message echoed by the departed Bergen.
Death.
Diego von Bergen died on October 7, 1944, in Wiesbaden, Germany; his death was announced ten days later in "L'Osservatore Romano", in an obituary which called him "highly esteemed and unanimously liked". A few months later, in the
, in turn, were to designate two priests who could replace them in the event of their death or arrest.
Almost immediately, the Reich's ambassador to the Holy See, Diego von Bergen, made it clear that Nazi Germany would like to see German prelates made temporary administrators of the sees whose bishops had been deposed. Prelate Franz Hartz, German Territorial Prelature of Schneidemühl, was suggested by the ambassador as administrator for Gniezno-Poznań, Danzig's Bishop Carl Maria Splett for Chełmno-Pelplin, and Breslau's Archbishop