[conservatism_IS_compassion]

So said Adolf Hitler, who founded a sate-run youth group that bore his name.

Yeah .... one member later joined a Luftwaffe flak-artillery outfit and went on to become Pope.

Do you consider that a proof of the saving power of God’s grace, or of the character-building nature of mandatory membership in the Hitler Youth?

[lentulusgracchus]

Do you consider that a proof of the saving power of God’s grace, or of the character-building nature of mandatory membership in the Hitler Youth?

It had better be the former, or we are deeply screwed.

I suppose that some character was built in some young men in the Hitler Youth .... but probably not in the ones who were victimized by the sadistic pederasts in the SA command staff, who used the Hitler Youth as a kind of seraglio.

At least until Hitler ordered Himmler to assassinate all the leading Brown Shirts.