Is it true the Pope was a Nazi soldier and had?

Question

joined the Hitler Youth Movement in his younger days.????

Answer 1

Yes, and he was one of the SS guards at Auschwich (sorry.. can't spell!) who took Jeqws into the gas chambers. It's also true that your Dad was a Russian spy in the cold war period and sold UK and USA secrets to the Communists. He now works undercover for Muslim extremist organisations. What dastardly deeds do you get up to, may I ask?

Answer 2

Current Pope Benedict XVI did briefly serve in the Hitler Youth during the end of World War II. He did not want to, but service in the Hitler Youth was mandatory during the time. He was briefly assigned to man a anti-aircraft gun, but eventually deserted and fled home shortly before the German surrender. He soon joined the seminary shortly after the war had ended.

Therefore, the Pope was never a Nazi soldier nor a member of the Nazi Party, although he was drafted into the HJ (Hitler Youth)

PS Being a German soldier in WWII does not mean one was a Nazi.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

As was mentioned above, from 1939 on membership in the Hitler Jugend was obligatory.

"This obligation was affirmed in 1939 with the Jugenddienstpflicht. Membership could be enforced even against the will of the parents. From that point, most of Germany's teenagers were incorporated into the Hitler Youth, and, by 1940, the total membership reached eight million. Later war figures are difficult to calculate, since massive conscription efforts and a general call-up of boys as young as ten years old meant that virtually every young male in Germany was, in some way, connected to the Hitler Youth."

"Hitler Youth membership", Wikipedia

Even some members of the anti-Nazi resistance were member of the Hitler Youth.

"Hans Scholl, one of the leading figures of the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose (Weiße Rose), was also a member of the Hitler Youth."

(ibidem)

And with most German adults drafted at the front or working in strategical industries, Hitler Youth members were drafted in the German Army, mostly in the anti-aircraft corps.

Now, if he had been a member *before* 1939 when it became obligatory, *that* would have been important.

Answer 4

NOT EVERY GERMAN SOLDIER WAS A NAZI. I get so sick of this, the national socialists were a political party; only the brown shirts (sa), the ss and party politicians were members. Towards the end of the war some German men were "drafted" in a literal join or die campaign.

Yes, the current Pope spent time in the Hitler Youth, although only a few weeks I think. He was later drafted into the German army, but deserted when allied forces began approaching.

Answer 5

Pope Benedict XVI was drafted into the Hitler Youth and the Nazi German Army just like every other non-Jewish German male. He was not given a choice.

The Pope is not and never has been a Nazi. He unfortunately was born and grew up in a country ruled by the Nazi party.

Every draftee into the Hitler Youth and the Nazi German Army was not a Nazi.

Just hope and pray that you do not have to make a decision to be executed or live and fight for a government in which you do not believe.

Thank God that you and I live in a very different world that the Pope did in 1930s and 1940s Germany. Or do we?

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

He was a German soldier (Nazi soldiers were SS). There was no choice in the matter, nor with Hitler Youth membership earlier.
He says he deserted in April 1945, but it seems to have been in May. A big difference, as Nazi authority was still in place in April, but not in May!

Answer 7

Yes, he was in the Hitler Youth Movement but - read the following for the full story

From Wikipedia:
Following his fourteenth birthday in 1941, Ratzinger was enrolled in the Hitler Youth — membership being legally required after December 1939[3] — but was an unenthusiastic member and refused to attend meetings. His father was a bitter enemy of Nazism, believing it conflicted with the Catholic faith. In 1941, one of Ratzinger's cousins, a 14-year-old boy with Down syndrome, was killed by the Nazi regime in its campaign of eugenics. In 1943 while still in seminary, he was drafted at age 16 into the German anti-aircraft corps. Ratzinger then trained in the German infantry, but a subsequent illness precluded him from the usual rigours of military duty. As the Allied front drew closer to his post in 1945, he deserted back to his family's home in Traunstein after his unit had ceased to exist, just as American troops established their headquarters in the Ratzinger household. As a German soldier, he was put in a POW camp but was released a few months later at the end of the War in summer 1945. He reentered the seminary, along with his brother Georg, in November of that year.

Answer 8

He was in the Hitler Youth.

But keep in mind.. he was living in friggin GERMANY at the time, and joining the Hitler youth was practically required.

Basically, he was likely forced to be in the Hitler Youth.

Answer 9

Yes

Answer 10

True he was apart of the NAZI Youth Movement .

Answer 11

Yes. He was given the task of shooting down Allied aircraft