 For the remainder of the Great War , Pacelli concentrated on Benedict 's humanitarian efforts especially among Allied POWs in German custody . In the upheaval following the Armistice , a disconcerted Pacelli sought Benedict XV 's permission to leave Munich , where Kurt Eisner had formed the Bavarian Soviet Republic , and he left for a while to Rorschach , and a tranquil Swiss sanatorium run by nuns . Monsignor Schioppa , the <unk> , was left in Munich . 
