Editing Pope Pius XII (section)

====Final stages====
As the war was approaching its end in 1945, Pius advocated a lenient policy by the [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] leaders in an effort to prevent what he perceived to be the mistakes made at the end of World War I.<ref>Kent, 2002, pp. 87–100.</ref> On 23 August 1944, he met the [[British prime minister]], [[Winston Churchill]], who was visiting Rome. At their meeting, the Pope acknowledged the justice of punishing war criminals, but expressed a hope that the people of Italy would not be punished, preferring that they should be made "full allies" in the remaining war effort.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/nuremberg/documents/index.php?documentdate=29%20August%201944&documentid=C107-10-54&studycollectionid=&pagenumber=1|title=News Release, 28 August 1944|publisher=Trumanlibrary.org|date=29 August 1944|access-date=12 September 2010|archive-date=21 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121035249/http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/nuremberg/documents/index.php?documentdate=29%20August%201944&documentid=C107-10-54&studycollectionid=&pagenumber=1|url-status=dead}}</ref>