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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)I don't doubt you -- just would like to read more.
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Date: 2005-04-19 05:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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 05:35 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.
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Date: 2005-04-19 05:36 pm (UTC)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.
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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)