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CNN doesn't seem to mention that Ratzinger was a member of the Nazi children's corps, a Hitler Youth, an anti-aircraft gunner in the second world war, and a concentration camp guard.
Funny, that.
CNN doesn't seem to mention that Ratzinger was a member of the Nazi children's corps, a Hitler Youth, an anti-aircraft gunner in the second world war, and a concentration camp guard.
Funny, that.
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Date: 2005-04-19 05:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 05:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 09:09 pm (UTC)I've known plenty of nice germans.
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Date: 2005-04-19 11:53 pm (UTC)That doesn't chang the fact that "Helmut" is the most awesome name for an evil overlord *ever*. It's the same reason that tender German love songs get played over here as angry death metal.
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Date: 2005-04-20 01:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-20 01:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 05:29 pm (UTC)I don't doubt you -- just would like to read more.
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Date: 2005-04-19 05:34 pm (UTC)http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1572667,00.html
Attendence in the Hitler Youth was apparently compulsory, and he claims to have never fired a shot as a gunner, but it really isn't good PR.
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Date: 2005-04-19 05:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 05:35 pm (UTC)He mostly claimed he joined when it was compulsory. Other people from his hometown who lived through the war said that isn't true, others corroborate his story.
Reconciliation means 'tilling their ashes into the soil', right?
Date: 2005-04-19 05:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 06:53 pm (UTC)There seems to be much contention on his career as a Nazi. Seems like he did flee at age 17, then joined the church after being released from a de-Nazification camp or something.