How do you feel about the pope being an ex-nazi?

Answer 1

Somehow seems appropriate.

Answer 2

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 3

you have not have been given a clue have you ever. so which you think of that the Pope and his kinfolk being sufferers of this way of time shouldn't flow to Israel. i ought to have sworn we've moved on. human beings are nevertheless looking on the previous and ridiculously so. They experience somebody could nevertheless be to blame right this moment however the nice and comfortable button is, people who did those atrocious killings to the Jews in WW2, have been already held to blame and somewhat some have been given their punishment for it. The Pope's very own kinfolk suffered too -his cousin killed by capacity of Nazi team for being disabled. human beings could flow forward. it incredibly is in simple terms approximately like asking some white guy right this moment to apoligize for the whites who hated on the black's interior the previous due 50's, 60's. etc. human beings could flow forward. maximum Jews have moved on and don't suggestions the Pope.

Answer 4

I personally don't agree with following worshipping the pope as far as being an ex-nazi that was his choice (being forced or not)

Answer 5

Please get your facts straight, he was NOT a Nazi

Following his fourteenth birthday in 1941, Ratzinger was enrolled in the Hitler Youth — membership being legally required after December 1939 — 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 6

Well, let's see. The Bible says that if I want to be forgiven for my sins, I must forgive others. Forgiveness is NOT optional. Forgiveness is easy when you love. When you love, you don't keep track of someone's wrongs.
I suppose if I judge him, and keep a sin against him, God will hold me to my own standard of measure. And, since I have scewed up SO much in my life, I don't think I can take that kind of chance. ( I am non-denom. protestant, by the way)
All that being said, I am sure there were many young Germans that HAD to be under Hitler that didn't WANT to be, maybe even thought he was completely wrong. We don't really know how they all thought.

Answer 7

That ain't necessarily so... he has in the Hitler Youth, as a child... essentially, a Boy Scout. I think it's much more interesting that his job before he became Pope was that of 'Holy Inquisitor'.

Answer 8

It's quite fitting considering the historical actions of various popes.

Answer 9

I am Jewish so I will give you my take on this. I think he was a youth and in order to get by in that society at that time you had to join the Hitler Youth. I don't think the kids knew what was happening and how evil the regime was. They thought of their "clubs" as a German boy scout or girl scout type of "club" that promoted comraderie. He was not a Nazi he was a Hitler Youth as I understand it and there is a huge difference.
I could be wrong but that is how I understand it.

Answer 10

I'm not fan of the pope, but what would you have done as a ten year old in Nazi Germany. A bit of contextual consideration, please.

Answer 11

if you look at the popes throughout history, many of them were nazi's...at least in spirit if not party affiliation...