...did Kappler actually issue orders to kill Father O'Flaherty if he crossed the white line that was painted around the Vatican???..... would they have? ...to me, this was a very interesting story -- the Irish priest vs the evil SS --in Rome---[ sounds like a movie------it is a movie! ] ....I read one book on it which got into O'Flaherty's life/etc ... ...it said he escaped capture one time by climbing out of a coal chute Hugh O Flaherty Memorial Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty Biography The priest who converted his enemy | Catholic Herald Meet the costume-wearing Irish priest who saved thousands of Romans from the Nazis ..the movie is ok, I guess...with Gregory Peck as the priest and Chis Plummer as Kappler The Scarlet and the Black (TV Movie 1983) - IMDb