![]() ![]() The discussion about his legacy continues to this very day. Pope Pius XII, who had been highly respected until then, became a man who was accused of keeping silent in the face of the Holocaust. The play was almost immediately translated into English in 1964 as The Deputy. The German playwright Rolf Hochhuth started a worldwide avalanche when he published the play Der Stellvertreter in 1963. Rolf Hochhuth, opening stage directions of The Deputy It would seem that anyone who holds a responsible post for any length of time under an autocrat-whether it be Hitler or Pius XII-surrenders his own personality. It is hard to say how a man with so likable a face could, in good conscience, reconcile himself to the continuance of the Concordat between the Curia and the Government of the Third Reich, even when Catholic Jews were deported. ![]() By Novemat the latest he must have witnessed with his own eyes the acts of terror committted against the Jewish citizens of Germany. The Nuncio resided in Berlin throughout the Hitler era. ![]()
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