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0 pointsmichaelt9y ago0 comments

  Is this really a thing?

If you were in the Hitler Youth in 1941, and you were 14, and it was mandatory, people will still bring it up 72 years later when you are literally the Pope [1]

Is it fair? No. Will some people do it anyway? Absolutely.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/International/pope-benedict-dogged-naz...

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jacobolus9y ago

Didn’t help Ratzinger that he spent his whole career being the inquisitor attack dog of the Church’s right wing.

My Mexican Jesuit friends called him “Nazinger” for his political actions as an adult, not for his past. German Catholics called him the “Panzerkardinal”.

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