People who claim that Pope Benedict XVI is a Nazi because he was drafted into the Hitler youth...?

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People who claim that Pope Benedict XVI is a Nazi because he was drafted into the Hitler youth...?

Answer 1

Such people are ignorant of history. Even if B16 had WANTED to be a Nazi, he was too young.



"Any member of the German people who has a clean record, who is of pure German blood, who does not belong to a Freemason's lodge or any related organization, and who has completed his 21st year (in some cases his 18th) can become a member of the NSDAP [National Socialist German Workers' Party]"

http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob79.html (history professor's site)



Being in the Hitler Youth wasn't a choice:



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Mandatory Participation



On December 1, 1936, Hitler decreed "The Law concerning the Hitler Youth" which mandated that all young Germans (excluding Jews) would "be educated physically, intellectually and morally in the spirit of National Socialism" though the Hitler Youth from the age of ten onward. This law also effectively ended the Catholic Youth Organization which had managed to hold for three years amid continual Nazi harrassment.



Parents who prevented their children from joining the Hitler Youth were subject to heavy prison sentences. Membership thus grew to nearly six million. As a result, the organization sprouted into a giant bureaucracy in Berlin and began to acquire the dreariness of a big governmental institution in marked contrast to the dynamic organization it had been in the 1920s and early '30s when members battled daily to bring Hitler to power. The compulsory nature of weekly HJ meetings for everyone led to a gradual decline in morale and discipline.



By 1939, about 82 percent (7.3 million) of eligible youths within the Reich belonged to the Hitler Youth, making it the largest youth organization in the world. A new law was issued on March 25, 1939, conscripting any remaining holdouts into the organization amid warnings to parents that their children would be taken from them and placed in orphanages unless they enrolled.

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/hitleryouth/hj-prelude.htm

Answer 2

I don't really get what the point of this is. It's well known he was a member of the HY. It's well known he fought with an auxiallary anti-aircraft battery. It's well known that so did nearly every German teenager - if my country was being invaded by all and sundry, and especially by the Soviets, I'd be out there shooting at them too, no matter who the government was.

Answer 3

Jehovah's Witness fathers in Germany believed Nazism conflicted with BIBLE teachings and their children didn't even JOIN.



So much for the "it was compulsory so he couldn't help it" claim.



You have to admit- mere joining IS giving tacit approval, and at the very least, a compromise.



You either stick firm to your beliefs, or you don't.

Answer 4

Es war nicht ungewöhnlich. It does not at all mean that he is a Socialist now. Even many adults at that time supported Hitler but were not really Socialists.

Answer 5

These people who claim that are just so ignorant. Pope Benedict is such a great man and an excellent Holy Father.

Answer 6

No. Pope Benedict XVI is a Nazi because he likes defending the rights of child molesting priests.

Answer 7

Exactly! It makes me want to bang my head on the wall each time I hear it.



Back then, it was a compulsory membership for the kids(boys, to be exact), so what should they have done about it? It's not like you had much coice.

Answer 8

No, Pope Benedict isn't a fan of Nazi though he's german. He's a good person.



God bless you!

Answer 9

I am not Christian, I am Muslim, but I agree and seriously doubt that the current Pope was Nazi. What else would he have done? Tried to take on the SS? Please, he did what was necessary to help protect himself and his family.

Answer 10

What happens to you as a child should not be held against you as an adult because a Child has no choice but to go where they are forced to go by the 'Responsible Adults'.



People that say that the Pope is "A Nazi" because of his childhood and can't point to any other 'evidence' are ignorant bigots.



Hold the Pope responsible for what he has DONE, not what his parents, culture, and country made him do.



Repeating this nonsense about his CHILDHOOD while ignoring all the evil he has done since JOINING THE CHURCH only makes people arguing against his "Holiness" fall in to the category of "Nut-Job" with you.

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Let is go over what THIS pope has actually done:



He PERSONALLY helped the Church enable and hide pedophiles.

He should be put in prison for the rest of his pathetic excuse for a life for what he did.



He PERSONALLY denounces condom use when specifically asked if it was ok for an HIV Positive husband to use a condom so as to not infect his non HIV infected wife.

That is deplorable and should be reason enough to dethrone him.



He PERSONALLY has said that abortion is NEVER ok, even in cases where it is the result of incest upon a child.

He should be BEATEN for that.



Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Penn & Teller: Season 7 Episode 10 – “The Vatican”

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Penn+Teller+Vatican&emb=0&aq=f#



Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Brazil's president attacks Vatican for condemning nine-year-old rape victim's abortion

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/4968239/Brazils-president-attacks-Vatican-for-condemning-nine-year-old-rape-victims-abortion.html

Brazil's president has criticised the Roman Catholic Church for excommunicating doctors who performed an abortion on a nine-year-old girl who was raped by her stepfather and was expecting twins.



Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sex abuse rife in other religions, says Vatican

(So I guess that makes what Christians did A'OK, right?)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/28/sex-abuse-religion-vatican



Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Documentary Explores Vatican Sexual Abuse Cover Up

http://www.sexualabuseclaimsblog.com/2008/06/documentary_explores_vatican_s_1.html



Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Crimen Sollicitationis controversy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sex_abuse_cases#Crimen_Sollicitationis_controversy



Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ GoogleSearch for "Crimen Sollicitationis"

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Crimen+sollicitationis&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8



Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ BBC Panorama: Sex Crimes & The Vatican - Crimen Sollicitationis

http://radicalfilms.co.uk/2008/02/12/crimen-sollicitationis-sex-crimes-and-the-vatican-bbc-panorama-series/



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BTW... Hitler was a devout Catholic that used Jesus Christ as his guide in life. This is stated many times over in his speeches.



Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Hitler's Christianity

http://www.nobeliefs.com/Hitler1.htm



"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.... When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom to-day this poor people is plundered and exploited. " -Adolf Hitler, in his speech on 12 April 1922



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Answer 11

People claiming he was a nazi probably don't even know what a nazi is to begin with

Answer 12

1Cor.14:34-35 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.



35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

Answer 13

"His father was a bitter enemy of Nazism."

--That's his father, not him.



A quote from the Pope himself would

be more suitable counter evidence.

Answer 14

And did you get this quote from a wiki?

Answer 15

I knew there was something evil about him...



http://www.freewebs.com/napkinofayr/Dr.%20Evil%20Pope.bmp