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Jul 25, 2023 · True. About this rating. Context. When Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) turned 14 in 1941 in Germany, he was legally required to join the Hitler Youth. Hitler Youth was an organization...
Feb 11, 2013 · "First, it was about the Nazi aspect." Pope Benedict XVI Resigns, First in Six Centuries. The Wiesenthal Center launched an investigation into Benedict's role in the Third Reich only to discover the Ratzingers came from a family of anti-Nazis, with no hint of antisemitism.
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Apr 21, 2005 · April 21, 2005. MUNICH, April 20 - The day after Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, some headlines were already drawing attention to a supposedly dark moment in his past,...
Jan 1, 2023 · By Adam Taylor. January 1, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. EST. Pope Benedict XVI walks through the gate of Auschwitz, a World War II death camp run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland, with a sign above...
Biographies. Peter Seewald: Benedict XVI: A Life, in two volumes: Volume One: Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council 1927–1965, Volume Two: Professor and Prefect to Pope and Pope Emeritus, 1966 – The Present, translated from the German by Dinah Livingstone, London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
Jan 3, 2023 · — Jewish groups are among those marking the death of Benedict XVI, the Catholic pontiff who died Saturday at 95, a decade after shocking the world by becoming the first pope since the Middle...
The Sunday Times described the older Ratzinger as "an anti-Nazi whose attempts to rein in Hitler's Brown Shirts forced the family to move several times." [1] According to the International Herald Tribune , these relocations were directly related to Joseph Ratzinger Sr.'s continued resistance to Nazism, which resulted in demotions and transfers.
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