But to understand how Pius’s reputation began to be challenged, we must see Hochhuth’s play within the context of the great social and cultural upheavals of the 1960’s. The German left wanted to change the interpretation of German history that was the foundation for the democratic and capitalist West Germany built by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
但是，要了解皮亚斯十二世的声誉是如何开始受到挑战的，我们必须在1960年代巨大社会和文化的动荡的历史条件下，来读霍赫胡特的剧本。德国左翼那时想改变对德国历史的解释，这种解释是康拉德·阿登纳总理建立民主资本主义西德的基础。这种解释认为，希特勒的国家社会主义的恐怖行为是发生在德国的叛教的后果。