Part I: How the play got produced --
Introduction to The deputy / Erwin Piscator --
Part II: What the theatre critics said --
Understudy for The deputy / Albert Bermel --
History as drama / Robert Brustein --
A theatre review / Harold Clurman --
The meaning of silence / Tom F Driver --
The deputy arrives / Richard Gilman --
Part III: Three editorials and a press release --
Silence / The New York times --
Echoes of The deputy / New York Post --
A statement by Cardinal Spellman / The New York Herald Tribune --
Character assassination / America --
Part IV: Hochhuth interviewed --
Interview with Rolf Hochhuth / Judy Stone --
Interview with Rolf Hochhuth / Patricia Marx --
Part V: Hochhuth's encounter with two persons concerned --
Pius XII and the Jews / G B Cardinal Montini (Pope Paul VI) --
Reply to Cardinal Montini / Rolf Hochhuth --
The Pope and the Jews / Albrecht von Kessel --
A playwright answers / Rolf Hochhuth --
Part VI: Comments of literary critics and philosophers --
Rolf Hochhuth's The deputy / Lionel Abel --
The deputy : guilt by silence? / Hanna Arendt --
The possibility of individual choice / Robert Gorham Davis --
On The deputy / Karl Jaspers --
The vicar of Christ / Alfred Kazin --
The Deputy and its metamorphoses / John Simon --
Reflections on The deputy / Susan Sontag --
Drama or pamphlet : Hochhuth's The deputy and the tradition of polemical literature / Rolf C Zimmermann --
Part VII: And of journalists, social scientists, historians --
The harassed Pope / Carl Amery --
Pius XII : a symbol / Arthur C Cochrane --
The dilemma of Pope Pius XII / Desmond Fisher --
The need for confession / Friedrich Heer --
Pius XII / Robert Leiber S J --
Pius XII, the Jews, and the German Catholic Church / Guenter Lewy --
The real accomplishment / Golo Mann --
The real issue / James O'Gara --
Pope Pius XII and the Nazis / Leon Poliakov --
What some people have forgotten about God's "deputy" / I F Stone --
Part VIII: Bibliography / David Beams.