 Cornwell 's work was the first to have access to testimonies from Pius XII 's beatification process as well as to many documents from Pacelli 's nunciature which had just been opened under the 75 @-@ year rule by the Vatican State Secretary archives . Susan Zuccotti 's Under His Very Windows : The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy ( 2000 ) and Michael Phayer 's The Catholic Church and the Holocaust , 1930 – 1965 ( 2000 ) and Pius XII , The Holocaust , and the Cold War ( 2008 ) provided further critical , though more scholarly analysis of Pius 's legacy . Daniel Goldhagen 's A Moral Reckoning and David Kerzer 's The Pope Against the Jews denounced Pius , while Ralph McInery and José Sanchez wrote more nuanced critical assessments of Pius XII 's pontificate . 
