Ratzinger, Sr. continued to serve in the police even after the Night of the Long Knives and the passing of the Nuremburg Laws so he wasn’t all that uncomfortable with his Nazi superiors. He retired on time and suffered no reprisals from the Nazis, moving his family to rural Bavaria where they continued to live in harmony with the Nazi establishment. How many Germans who were “unsympathetic” to the Nazi cause retired to Bavaria, I wonder?
Probably zero.
Traunstein, the town Ratzinger retired to, is a stone’s throw from Berchtesgaden where Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest provided him with lots of R and R.
RCs just make things up. At this point the internet is littered with frantic rewrites. But even this revisionist history cannot obscure the facts.
When Ratzinger was put forth as candidate for the Papacy, a lot of lefties shrieked that it was "a liberal's turn" to become Pope.
Most of the negative things I've heard about Ratzinger came from the far left. These are the same people who accused George W of dereliction of duty and claimed John Kerry was "smarter." They also called John Kerry a war hero.
I have to take the claims against Ratzinger with a grain of salt.
That's rich coming from someone with no apparent regard for the truth. Joseph Ratzinger was a career officer in the Landespolezi, a civilian police force run by the State of Bavaria that not unlike any municipal police force today. The order to integrate the forces was given in June 1936 and integration was completed the following spring. Ratzinger submitted his retirement papers upon the issuance of the absorption and was mustered out soon after its completion in 1937. To listen to you he was a stoker in the furnaces of Auschwitz and not a civil servant.