Pius the Good
The brief for a much-maligned pope.
William Doino Jr.
June 12, 2006, Vol. 11, No. 37
The Myth of Hitler's Pope
How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis
by David G. Dalin
Regnery, 256 pp., $27.95
EVER SINCE THE GERMAN PLAYWRIGHT Rolf Hochhuth produced The Deputy--a long, unwatchable 1963 production that depicted Pope Pius XII as indifferent to the Holocaust--the notion that the Vatican bears a large portion of the guilt for Hitler's murder of six million Jews has waxed and waned. But it seemed mostly to be fading away, one of the sillier ventures in historical misunderstanding.
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