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.

Comments

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

He deserted a few days before the war ended -- perhaps he saw the writing on the wall?

A 14-year-old is capable of telling right from wrong in law.

[sherbetsaucers.livejournal.com]

A 14 year old should not be expected to be ready to die for his beliefs.

He did desert a few days befor the end, he was conscripted around the same time they were useing slaves to man the guns and woudl shoot someone if they even hinted they felt there might be defeat. At this time he would have been killed, not sent to some concentration camp. It would be a futile gesture. Far better to survive and make sure such things never happened again.