ABSTRACT
Hochhuth's (1964) play. The Deputy, raised difficult and embarrassing questions on the corduct of Pope Pius during the Hitler era which are matched by equally awkward questions on the role of German Protestantism during the same period. Both religious groups faced what seemed to be a choice between abandoning all concern for the welfare of the Jews or suffering possible extinction of their own institutional life by a totalitarian state which had already demonstrated its ability to deal ruthlessly with religious personnel. Neither church was characterized by racist ideology, but both were compramised by a considerable incidence of antisemitism among their own clergy.
