 Historian Walter <unk> argued that Pacelli , as Cardinal Secretary of State , dissuaded Pope Pius XI — who was nearing death at the time — from condemning the Kristallnacht in November 1938 , when he was informed of it by the papal nuncio in Berlin . Likewise the draft encyclical Humani generis <unk> ( " On the Unity of the Human Race " ) , which was ready in September 1938 but , according to those responsible for an edition of the document and other sources , it was not forwarded to the Holy See by the Jesuit General <unk> <unk> . The draft encyclical contained an open and clear condemnation of colonialism , racial persecution and antisemitism . 
