Joseph Ratzinger was a member of Hitler Youth.
What's your point? Was a 14 year old boy supposed to oppose the Nazi's? Does he get any credit for escaping from them?
What’s the point of the letter other than more appeasing by the appeaser.
From Wikipedia, a brief description of Joseph's Ratzinger’s youth in Germany. Hopefully, you will learn something.
“Ratzinger’s family, especially his father, bitterly resented the Nazis, and his father's opposition to Nazism resulted in demotions and harassment of the family.[23] Following his 14th birthday in 1941, Ratzinger was conscripted into the Hitler Youth—as membership was required by law for all 14-year-old German boys after December 1939[24]—but was an unenthusiastic member who refused to attend meetings, according to his brother.[25] In 1941, one of Ratzinger’s cousins, a 14-year-old boy with Down syndrome, was taken away by the Nazi regime and murdered during the Action T4 campaign of Nazi eugenics.”
Propter hoc ergo post hoc? Seems, um, illogical. --Mr Spock
Every German youth was a member of the Hitler Youth. It was mandatory.