All this means is that both Heidegger and Ratzinger lived in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. Everybody in R's age cohort was in the Hitler Youth. My grandfather was in the Hitler Youth and my grandmother was in the League of German Girls or whatever you called it (she was 14 in 1945). It was not voluntary.
--- Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Ratzinger’s past includes brief membership of the
> Hitler Youth movement
> and wartime service with a German army anti-
> aircraft unit.
>
> full:
>
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1572667,00.html
>
> Heidegger was a dues paying Nazi Party member from
> the early thirties
> till 1945.
>
> see:
>
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/apr2000/heid-a03.shtml
>
> fun with Heidi:
>
>
http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/cartooncontents.htm
>
> Best,
> Mike B)
>
>
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