Here's a clue by four

[docwebster]

Membership in the Hitler Youth was compulsory and the man deserted the army at age 17.

I'm not saying sprinkle rose petals in his path and cry "allelujia"(sp?), but get your heads out of your behinds and maybe pick something besides that to villify him for.

Or you could - here's a wild thought - wait for the man to actually be in office more than a few hours before getting out the tar and feathers? Believe me, I'll be right there in line with you if he starts mucking up.

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[rpmcmurphy.livejournal.com]

Memberships was compulsory and he did get a dispensation to leave the Hitler Youth. The question, then, is why, two years later, was he manning an anti-aircraft gun over a BMW factory for the Nazis and then shipped to Hungary where he set up tank traps?

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Excuse me for asking, but who the heck are you?

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

For that matter, where are you getting these things he supposedly did?

[stypica.livejournal.com]

there's this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cardinal_Ratzinger

but who knows where that info comes from.

Being in the army on the losing side of a war is a whole lot different than being a nazi, imho.

[dirtynumbangel.livejournal.com]

Because it was Germany, he was a German citizen, and he was drafted into the Army? Which he later deserted?

Psheesh.