I have read about Ratsinger’s past. He was both a Hitler Youth and apparently guarded a BMW plant making engines. He wasn’t a higher eschelon Nazi, and I wasn’t implying he was. My intention was to try to see it from the Jews perspective rather than just glibbly dismiss their concerns as some on this thread are doing.
Ratzinger did not join the HJ.
The HJ joined him.
I have to seriously doubt anyone who says they “have read about Ratsinger’s past.”
“Ratsinger” is how it is pronounced in English, but the correct spelling is Ratzinger. Someone who has learned about him without reading would make that mistake.
Who's doing that?
Name names.
If you really want to sound like you know what you're talking about, the least you could do is learn to spell the man's name right. BTW, the Wikipedia page and a couple of magazine articles doesn't qualify you as someone who has "read up" on the man. And the Jews comeing around here to attack him represent a small annoying minority who must simply be put in their place, lest the continue to spread their lies. You seem to know that there is no evidence that the feelings that Ratzinger had for the Nazis were nothing but revulsion.