Abstract
Like other studies on Pope Pius XII and the Jews in the wake of Rolf Hochhuth's play of the early 1960's, Susan Zuccotti's book is strongly revisionist. [End Page 343] In approaching the relationship of the Vatican to the whole of Italy, she takes her title from (p. 162) what the German Ambassador to the Vatican said in a telegram during the crucial period of October, 1943, and she is more concerned about anti-Judaism, of which she accuses the Church, not to mention the Jesuits, than about anti-Semitism, which the Church condemns. An expert on the Holocaust in France and Italy, Zuccotti alleges that it is a myth to credit Pius XII with helping the Jews. Thus, her book aims to refute the late Pinchas E. Lapide (pp. 303-304), whom she regards as the myth's chief architect.
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