Is there no end to your calumny!!. You are repeating a scandal which fails to reveal very important facts. But you know this and persist in it. Why? Because of hatred and bigotry and evil intent. This in a Christian??? Here are the facts that you forget. I take that back you have not forgotten but the full truth does not serve your agenda so you leave it out.
Benedict was 14 years of age when he was conscripted into the Hitler Youth. You probably don’t know what conscripted means so I’ll help you out. IT means he was drafted and had no choice. Here is the Wikepedia entry on the subject.
“Following his 14th birthday in 1941, Ratzinger was conscripted into the Hitler Youth — as membership was required by law for all 14-year old German boys after December 1939[9] — but was an unenthusiastic member who refused to attend meetings.[10] His father was an enemy of Nazism, believing it conflicted with the Catholic faith. In 1941, one of Ratzinger’s cousins, a 14-year-old boy with Down syndrome, was taken away by the Nazi regime and killed during the Aktion T4 campaign of Nazi eugenics.[11] In 1943, while still in seminary, he was drafted into the German anti-aircraft corps as Luftwaffenhelfer.[10] Ratzinger then trained in the German infantry, but a subsequent illness precluded him from the usual rigours of military duty[citation needed]. As the Allied front drew closer to his post in 1945, he deserted back to his family’s home in Traunstein after his unit had ceased to exist, just as American troops established their headquarters in the Ratzinger household”
Since you will claim this was all made up in some vast conspiracy of Catholics I include the source material
^ The Third Reich in Power, Richard J Evans, 2005, pg 272
^ a b “New Pope Defied Nazis As Teen During WWII”. Associated Press. USA Today. 23 April 2005. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-04-23-new-pope-defied-Nazis_x.htm. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
^ Allen, John (14 October 2005). “Anti-Nazi Prelate Beatified”. The Word from Rome (National Catholic Reporter). http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/word101405.htm#five. Retrieved 15 April 2008.
You are repeating a scandal which fails to reveal very important facts. But you know this...
MInd-reading is against the rules.
Somehow there was not one man in all the world to lead the Roman Catholic church other than a man who had been in the Hitler Youth, whose father was S.S. and retired on time with no repercussions from Nazi authorities, who was a member of a German anti-aircraft unit who shot down Allied planes, who was held as a prisoner of war after he "deserted" along with thousands of German soldiers as the war was ending, and whose brother was involved in a pedophilia scandal of his own.
In all the world, Ratzinger was the only man to lead the RCC.
Apparently a good fit.
Seriously, anyone trying to connect Hitler with the Catholic Church need only google "Hitler's Bible." Hitler replaced God with "The State" throughout the book. Like most socialists and all communists, he wanted to destroy Christianity.
Either Lenin or Stalin, I forget which, said "Religion is the opiate of the masses." The Soviet plan was for the religious grandmothers to die out and Church with them.
Let's stick to arguments with merit.