Pope's Nazi past
Benedict XVI former Hitler Youth member
Updated: 5:46 p.m. ET April 20, 2005
As John Paul II's right hand man, in charge of enforcing the
conservative papal policy, Cardinal Ratzinger earned an unfortunate
nickname from his more progressive peers: the "Panzer Cardinal". Like
the tank. Pope Benedict XVI, now 78, had his own brush with warfare as
a young boy growing up in Nazi Germany.
* At age, 14 membership in Germany's "Hitler Youth" became
mandatory. So Joseph Ratzinger enrolled
* He managed to get out early so he could study for the
priesthood.
* Two years later, when he was 16, Ratzinger was drafted again by
the German Army.
* Ratzinger worked as a helper in an anti-aircraft briagde.
* In 1945, he was put through basic training and stationed near
his hometown in Bavaria.
* When Allied forces advanced, he deserted the German army -
risking death by that act alone.
* After he escaped, Ratzinger was captured by American soldiers
and spent the remainder of the war in a POW camp.
source:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7576505/
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