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@Apr 19 2005, 11:02 AM
Cardinal Ratzinger was a former member of the Hitler Youth. So he's got that going for him too.
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If you were a child in Germany during that time you would have been a Nazi Youth as well.
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You can always say no... there were those that did.
All the Catholic Church needs... a fataing Nazi as Pope.
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You say no, you go to prison or die... and so does your entire family. What would you do as a young man?
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I don't know...
As I said, there were people who stood up for what was right and paid the price for it.
This guy was 18 in 1945, old enough to know what was going on.
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Others countries have some culpibility for those atrocities by not standing up. Like Denmark.
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Denmark did have a somewhat mixed record during the Second World War.
I'm not trying to trumpet my own greatness, I am just saying that being a member of Hitler Youth in your teens is not exactly great points in your favour.
But I was wrong, I did some searching around the Jerusalem Post.
He actually fled the Hitler Youth and German Army, his father was also an anti-Nazi. He has been characterized through his 60 years in the Catholic Church by encouraging Jewish-Catholic relations.