It would be slander if it was about t he current Pope, but his father was in fact a Nazi in his youth
Cardinal Ratzinger's father was an officer in the state police ... as was his wife
http://www.petersnet.net/browse/663.htm
Catholic Document Library
www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=663
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Ratzinger's father retires and his family moves to Hufschlag, outside the city of Traunstein
{So he repented later,on that you are correct}
http://www.ratzingerfanclub.com/Biography.html
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The sins of the Father were absolved through him, as the current Pope fought communism in Germany
Some of the new Pope's ideology:
"I'm not the Grand Inquisitor," Cardinal Ratzinger once said in an interview. But to the outside world, he has been known as the Vatican's enforcer. He made the biggest headlines when his congregation silenced or excommunicated theologians, withdrew church approval of certain books, helped rewrite liturgical translations, set boundaries on ecumenical dialogues, took over the handling of clergy sex abuse cases against minors, curbed the role of bishops' conferences and pressured religious orders to suspend wayward members.
Sometimes his remarks have been bluntly critical, on such diverse topics as dissident theologians, liberation theology, "abuses" in lay ministry, homosexuality, women as priests, feminism among nuns, premarital sex, abortion, liturgical reform and rock music.
"I'm not the Grand Inquisitor," Cardinal Ratzinger once said in an interview. But to the outside world, he has been known as the Vatican's enforcer. He made the biggest headlines when his congregation silenced or excommunicated theologians, withdrew church approval of certain books, helped rewrite liturgical translations, set boundaries on ecumenical dialogues, took over the handling of clergy sex abuse cases against minors, curbed the role of bishops' conferences and pressured religious orders to suspend wayward members.
And I believe you are incorrect. The "State Police" would be the Polizei Bayern (Bavarian Police Force - Bavaria is a state), and since Hitler didn't come to power until HH was 9 years old, his dad was probably already a member of the police force at that time.
That does not - repeat, NOT - make him a Nazi. A similar thing happened to a JEWISH friend of my dad's. He was already in the Austrian Army when Hitler assassinated Dollfuss and took over Austria. Does that make him a Nazi?
And as his district got "Nazified", he moved because he was being persecuted for his anti-Nazi views. Don't see what else he could have done.