 Any accusations of Pope Pius XII about not speaking openly against crimes and atrocities committed by Third Reisch - not only on Jews - should take into account testimony like this of one Berlin Jewish couple , Mr. and Mrs. Wolfsson : " None of us wanted the Pope to take an open stand . We were all fugitives , and fugitives do not wish to be pointed at . The Gestapo would have become more excited and would have intensified its inquisitions . If the Pope had protested , Rome would have become the center of attention . It was better that the Pope said nothing . We all shared this opinion at the time , and this is still our conviction today . " . There ware examples when Church reaction to Nazi brutality only intensified SS persecutions of both : Jews and the Church . 
