[N. Beaujon]

Aren't we the idiot. He never was a party member.

You're wrong. I'm a conserative that means a respect for the truth. Liberals are the ones who twist the facts to fit their agenda. It is what it is. You may be able to justify or forgive it but for God's sake don't deny it.

https://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/42823.htm

"Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger — a favorite to become the next pontiff — joined the Nazi children's corps in 1941 as a 14-year-old and was later an anti-aircraft gunner. At one point, he guarded a factory where slaves from a concentration camp were forced to work. He was later shipped to Hungary, where he reportedly saw Jews persecuted.

Ratzinger, a staunch conservative dubbed "God's Rottweiler," has said he joined the Hitler Youth when membership became compulsory. He and his brother were later drafted but deserted. The cardinal claims he never fired a shot and that resistance would have meant death. Not so, Germans from his hometown of Traunstein told The Times of London.

"It was possible to resist, and those people set an example for others," recalled Elizabeth Lohner, 84. "The Ratzingers were young — and they had made a different choice."

[Campion]

Hitler Youth wasn't party membership. You had to be an adult to be a Party member. Membership in the HJ was compulsory for all non-Jewish teenage boys.

[demlosers]

that's still not being a party member and, he deserted in the end. Avoiding conscription during WW2 for the Germans was not an option. And as for him being an anti-acraft gunners, the Germans frequently used women, slave workers, children, and POWs to man their 88s.