--- 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
Burying the lead:
... He joined the Hitler Youth aged 14, shortly after membership was made compulsory in 1941.
He quickly won a dispensation on account of his training at a seminary. “Ratzinger was only briefly a member of the Hitler Youth and not an enthusiastic one,” concluded John Allen, his biographer.
Two years later Ratzinger was enrolled in an anti-aircraft unit that protected a BMW factory making aircraft engines. The workforce included slaves from Dachau concentration camp. ...
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