New book by Father Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo – «Pius XII and the Shoah: being grateful to those who saved your life is a humiliation that some can't stand "
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The first to speak negatively of Pius XII was Rolf Hochhuth, In the 1963, with the play “The vicar”, which at the time caused a scandal.
The book sold a lot and was obviously used controversially.
The operation, therefore, is prior to 1967 and in any case it was conducted by people born before the war (Hochhuth was from 1931) either during or immediately after, certainly not twenty years later. That Hochhuth's nonsense has been variously taken up and amplified even later by younger people, this is another matter, naturally.
I thank you for this clarification you provided to those who have studied the historical figure of Pius XII for twenty years and who, starting from 2001 has repeatedly had access on several occasions to documents from the Vatican and the Secretariat of State archives that you will undoubtedly know and have studied much better than me.
Add to this that I was a pupil of the two old postulators general of the Society of Jesus to whom the cause of beatification of Pius XII was entrusted and that for years I have followed the process by accessing numerous historical correspondence that only today are beginning to be accessible and made public..
Anyhow, in my book, which she obviously hasn't read at all, I speak abundantly of Rolf Hochhuth's play of 1963.
For little that may be of any use and value, I tell you that it is never opportune or prudent to make clarifications such as yours based not on the book – which I repeat you cannot have read on the date of 21 January -, but based only on a simple and short presentation to the book, or on a so-called “back cover”, that is the back of the cover where the work is presented.
Unfortunately today it is fashionable to tip the nails in this way, all the more reason I cannot miss an opportunity to say and to demonstrate that such action and expression is not at all serious and that it goes beyond any basic historical-scientific criterion.