But any condemnation by Pius of Communism would have been exploited by Nazi propaganda as support for Hitler’s war effort. And a condemnation of Nazism could have been misinterpreted as an attack not against Nazism, but against Germany in its life-and-death struggle with Stalin’s Communist regime.
如果站在中立的立场上来观察， 1940年代的战争主要是纳粹主义与共产主义之间的战争。双方所要争夺的就是欧洲。大多数历史学家现在也承认，西方的民主国家在这场伟大的军事争斗中，起了相对次要的作用。教皇相信，他可以对这两种极权主义势力都予以谴责，或对两者都不谴责。但是，教皇对共产主义的任何谴责都会被纳粹的宣传机器所利用，以表明是对希特勒战争的支持。而对纳粹主义的谴责可能被误解为不是反对纳粹主义而是反对正在和斯大林的共产主义国家作生死搏斗的德国。