Does pope benny still keep up with his old nazi chums?

Answer 1

As a teenager and young man, 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.

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 2

Pope Benedict belonged to a youth organization organized by the Nazis, so it is possible he keeps in touch with some childhood friends who also belonged, but to call them 'old nazi chums' is a bit misleading. I'm sure that he also met lots of fellow Germans who had belonged to the National Socialist party while it existed. As I'm sure you're aware, a majority of Germans supported the Nazi party at some point or other, but of course most of them committed no crimes.