Document. Gordon says that Lapide sets out to refute the thesis advanced by Rolf Hochhuth and others who have charged the wartime Pope with varying degrees of responsibility for the Nazi program for the extermination of European Jewry. Gordon says that in the process, Lapide has compiled "an impressive and extremely well-documented review of the unceasing efforts of Pius to save the lives of as many Jews as possible and the extent to which those efforts did succeed."