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At the end of his pontificate, an encyclical with the name Humani Generis Unitas was prepared on his orders; it contained an open condemnation of anti-semitism and all racism. The encyclical was ready in september 1938, but never published, as Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, cardinal secretary of state of the Holy See, judged that it might provoke anti-Catholic retaliation, especially in Nazi Germany, and that an open attack on racial policy and internal affairs of Germany and Fascist Italy would make the Holy See's claim to impartiality ludicrous and incredible.

This would be an interesting encyclical to take a look at. Do you know where a text of this encyclical can be found?

Interesting that Eugenio Pacelli talked Pius XI out of publishing this encyclical, and yet four months later Pius XI had a change of mind, and against Pacelli's advice, was going to deliver a public address anyway against the Nazis and their racial policies, putting in danger the 1933 Concordat. But he never lived long enough to do so.

What ever happened to that encyclical and the text of that address? Did Pius XII ever realize that the 1933 Concordat had been a mistake as his predecessor apparently did?