Pope Benedict XVI was 6 years old when Adolf Hitler seized power, 14 when required to join the Hitler Youth, 16 when conscripted into antiaircraft work in Munich and 21 when drafted into the German army.
That period of his life would prompt provocative headlines and draw intense scrutiny from international media.ran the front page of Britain’s Sun tabloid after his selection as pope in 2005. Israel’s Yediot Aharonot offered: “White Smoke, Black Past.” Many news stories shared the same blurry photograph of a teenage Ratzinger, staring unsmiling toward the camera, wearing a uniform with an eagle over a swastika on his chest.
He was aware of the horrors of Nazism. Shortly after he became an archbishop in 1977, the future pope acknowledged that during this period he lived near Dachau, a concentration camp to which thousands were sent, among them Catholic Priests who preached against Nazi Germany.“The whole thing disgusted us,” Archbishop Ratzinger wrote in one account, though he stated he did not know at the time that Jews had been sent to the camp.
“The Third Reich was terribly against his grain, and he tried to get out of service as early as possible,” he said, adding that his father had not openly opposed the government but had subscribed to a Bavarian anti-Nazi newspaper, Der Gerade Weg, that was banned in 1933. He called himself “a son of people over which a ring of criminals rose to power by false promises of future greatness and the recovery of the nation’s honor, prominence and prosperity, but also through terror and intimidation, with the result that our people were used and abused as an instrument of their thirst for destruction and power.”
“He read a great deal about conscience and rights of conscience and was alert to the ways in which ideologies alien to the church could infiltrate and disarm its structures,” McGreevy said.
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