Get your facts right, people

[karohemd]

Having been a member of the Hitler Youth and being a Nazi are two very different things.
The first was compulsory from 1936, the latter was a choice (to join the party).
I thought you would have learned by now to disassociate Germans with Nazis but sadly, this doesn't seem to be the case...

As little as I like Ratzinger's views, he wasn't and isn't a Nazi.

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[jholloway.livejournal.com]

Well, yes and no, right? It's certainly true that membership in the party was limited, but not everyone who supported the Nazis was actually a member of the NSDAP, in the same way that not every person who supported Communism in the USSR was actually a member of the Communist Party, which was a restricted organization.

On the other hand, that isn't to suggest that Ratzinger was one of those people who supported the Nazi ideology.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Of course.