[Gay State Conservative]

The Vatican insists that Joseph Ratzinger joined the Hitler Youth only because it was compulsory and did not attend its meetings. He was drafted into an antiaircraft corps in 1943 and trained in the infantry, but deserted in the last months of the war.

Compulsory membership in the Hitler Youth is easily enough confirmed or refuted.And his record in the German Army,one would think,could be established as well.If either of his claims were inaccurate people all the over the world would have seen proof positive of it.I've seen no such proof.

[presidio9]

It also might be nice to mention that Joseph was just 16 when he was drafted, and had already had family members executed by the Gestapo. But why take sides on this one, right. There is no such thing as a good German.