The Pope’s Dilemma: Pius XII faces atrocities and genocide in the Second World WarJACQUES KORNBERGTablet bookshop price £21.83 • tel 01420 592974Church of Spies: the Pope’s secret war against HitlerMARK RIEBLINGTablet bookshop price £18 • tel 01420 592974 The shadow of the Holocaust will always loom darkly over the legacy of Pope Pius XII. Why did he not publicly condemn the Nazis’ murder of Jews, about which the Vatican knew by 1942?  Jacques Kornberg, a professional historian and “a person of faith”, advances his own explanation. The Pope adhered to what he saw as his primary spiritual duty of keeping Catholics united to the Church and with access to the sacraments, and so decided not to alienate the Nazis and those who supported