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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Don't forget Pope Benedict was in the Hitler Youth.

[–] ErenOnizuka@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

He had no choice

Ratzinger's family, especially his father, bitterly resented the Nazis, and his father's opposition to Nazism resulted in demotions and harassment of the family.[20] Following his 14th birthday in 1941, Ratzinger was conscripted into the Hitler Youth – as membership was required by law for all 14-year-old German boys after March 1939[21] – but was an unenthusiastic member who refused to attend meetings, according to his brother.[22] In 1941, one of Ratzinger's cousins, a 14-year-old boy with Down syndrome, was taken away by the Nazi regime and murdered during the Aktion T4 campaign of Nazi eugenics.

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