 A German contingent dominated his inner circle at this period – the German Jesuits Robert Leiber , Wilhelm <unk> and Ivo <unk> . His personal confessor Augustin Bea was a German Jesuit and Mother Pascalina Lehnert and the other German speaking sisters of the papal household added to this element . The American bishop Aloisius Muench wrote in November 1948 that Pius XII was ' more interested in affairs of the Church in Germany than in any other part of the Church ' and resolved to make the postwar German crisis a top priority - ' its refugee crisis , poverty , hunger and disease , the fate of prisoners @-@ of @-@ war and accused war criminals , the disruption to the internal organization and communal life of German Catholicism , and Germany 's uncertain political <unk> 
