[ QUOTE ] Here comes the new Pope, same as the old Pope... This new Pope was also in the Hitler Youth for a while, although I believe he was conscripted, it wasn't actually his choice... He was apparently against Nazism. [/ QUOTE ] Even more significantly, he was 14. Does anyone here really want to be held accountable for…
"Joseph Ratzinger was born in Marktl am Inn, in Bavaria, the son of a police officer who was staunchly anti-Nazi. In 1937 Ratzinger's father retired and settled in the town of Traunstein. When Ratzinger turned 14 in 1941, he joined the Hitler Youth, as all young men in Germany were required to do in the Third Reich.…