SIR: With regard to Alan N. Cowan’s letter (May 2008) I suggest it is he who needs to read more widely about Pius XII and the Jews. Rabbi David G. Dalin, in The Myth of Hitler’s Pope, makes it clear that Susan Zuccotti, whom Cowan praises, is not “scrupulous and objective”, in fact her theories are fanciful: During and for close to two decades after World War II, Jewish praise and gratitude for Pius XII’s efforts on behalf of European Jewry were virtually unanimous … Susan Zuccotti disparages and dismisses … the praise that Pius XII received from contemporary Jewish…
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