In 1941, German "therapists" arrived at the boy's home and took him away -- telling his parents of the new governmental regulations against mentally disabled children living at home.
Despite pleas from the boy's family, German officials took him away and he later became a victim of the genocide that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives of handicapped people during the war.
That same year, at age 14, Joseph Ratzinger refused to go to Hitler Youth meetings despite the fact that his whole class had been signed up automatically via compulsory enrollment.
So just to knock the Nazi charge out of the way (again), here's what the Jerusalem Post had to say about it:
By Sam Ser, THE JERUSALEM POST Apr. 18, 2005
London's Sunday Times would have us believe that one of the leading contenders for the papacy is a closet Nazi. In if-only-they-knew tones, the newspaper informs readers that German-born Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was a member of the Hitler Youth during World War II and suggests that, because of this, the "panzer cardinal" would be quite a contrast to his predecessor, John Paul II.
...[But]As the Sunday Times article admits, Ratzinger's membership in the Hitler Youth was not voluntary but compulsory; also admitted are the facts that the cardinal – only a teenager during the period in question – was the son of an anti-Nazi policeman, that he was given a dispensation from Hitler Youth activities because of his religious studies, and that he deserted the German army.... "Keeping out of the Hitler Youth was difficult because the tuition reduction, which I really needed, was tied to proof of attendance at the Hitler Youth,"[said Ratzinger]
"Thank goodness there was a very understanding mathematics professor. He himself was a Nazi, but an honest man, and said to me, 'Just go once to get the document so we have it...' When he saw that I simply didn't want to, he said, 'I understand, I'll take care of it' and so I was able to stay free of it."
So, automatically registered with the Nazi Youth together with everybody else in his class, he had the --- nerve --- at age 14, to tell a Nazi teacher that he refused to go to even one meeting!
And drafted into the German Army, he deserted at the risk of being caught and shot. (I honestly wonder whether my boys --- or I myself --- would ever be able to find such courage.)
Let me remind you that as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1981–2005, Ratzinger was dubbed “God’s Rotweiler" beause of his active opposition to marxist liberation theology. Fox News did a special on that a couple of years ago: 2005, I think it was.
Daniel Maguire, a pro-abortion Marquette professor and protégé of the disgraceful sodomite retired Archbishop Rembert Weakland (Milwaukee), has made it his particular campaign to try to force Benedict's resignation from the papacy, or at least to smear him badly enough so that his strong stand against homosexuality, abortion, and liberation theology would be decisively undermined.
That's what the atheists Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, along with their left-wing doppelgangers in the Catholic Far Left, are doing as we speak. With a little help from their friends: you know who you are.
THANKS for the added info and perspective.
I have no trouble believing you.
Personally, as dreadful as such issues are . . . I’m MUCH MORE troubled by his globalism assertions and inclinatons.
He may be an honest, earnest Christian man in an impossible job. I hope so.
Nevertheless, the globalism stuff is pure satanic from hell. And even the one telling horrific paragraph in the encyclical is dreadful enough to make me more than a little wary.
Of course, I also have less than no use for his Marian and Fatima blasphemies etc. either.
LOL . . . BTW, you might take care to put more distance between hubby’s screen name and mine, next time. Wouldn’t want him to break out in hives.
Keep on exposing the ignorance and the lies that threaten to overwhelm the world!
SMOOCH!!
Read up on this country's eugenics history. It's not pretty.
Ratzinger, as Marlowe pointed out, has struck out so many times that his team should be out of the league.
He was in the Hitler Youth.
His father was an SS officer (regardless of all the footwork to erase that history.)
He was head of the Office of the Inquisition during the most recent pederast priest scandals where he covered up the sins of these priests, protected the priests at the expense of the victims, and is now morally and criminally liable for the pain and suffering of thousands of children world-wide.
He cozies up to terrorists and provides a televised stage for and shakes hands with jihadist terrorists like Sheikh Taysir al-Tamimi. Twice.
He defends Gaza Palestinians over the Jews.
He condemns all other Christian churches as "defective."
And he writes an insidious "global authority" encyclical which is pure communism from first page to last where he asserts the need for the United States and the rest of the world to put their sovereignty, politics, economics, immigration policies, food distribution, education, welfare and religion under the absolute control of a single "global authority" who has the power of enforcement "with teeth."
Step back, folks, and really examine this. If some two-bit dictator had done all this he would have been run out of town long ago.
The sad fact is not that Ratzinger is all these things and thus unfit to be pope. The sad fact is that to be pope all these things are just fine with the magisterium and the laity.
Rome does not change. Tyrants never do.
Ohhhhh Reaaaaly?
Of intrest to me in this snippet is the fact that the German side of my family never talked about compulsory enrollment into the Hilter Youth. And my family can cite by name everyone in the town who joined and jsut as importantly who didn't.
They won't believe it. There is no one on your cc list (with the exception of don-o) that hasn't been presented with more than sufficient proof to the contrary, yet they refuse to believe it. This clearly shows intent.