A book review cannot give a complete picture of a book, but I would like to mention a few points where I think Lauren Faulkner Rossi wasn’t quite balanced in her assessment of the Church in Germany during the Nazi period (Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi war of annihilation, book review, 4 July). It is true that the bishops did not speak out against the Nazis, but this was because the head of the German Church believed in taking a more diplomatic approach. However, this did not prevent bishops, priests and laity from offering every possible help to the Jews after the Kristallnacht pogrom. Fr Bernhard Lichtenburg, for example, was arrested by the Gestapo for such activity, and has been acknowledged by Israel as one of the Righteous of the Nations. He died on his way to Dac