Hitler Youth Will Try to Negotiate Middle East Peace

[Midwest_Doc]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/world/middleeast/09pope.html?ref=global-home

[Captain Hilts]

1. Not fair. He had no choice but to participate. Give Cardinal Rat a break on that one. nt

[KatyMan]

3. Agreed.

The accusation betrays a lack of knowledge on the subject. I would recommend reading Richard J. Evans series on Nazi Germany for further details:

The Coming Of The Third Reich, London : Allen Lane, 2003.
The Third Reich In Power, 1933-1939, New York : Penguin, 2005.
The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster , London: Allen Lane, 2008.

[Turbineguy]

2. Why not?

No place to go but up.

[Captain Hilts]

5. Somebody's got to do it. Why not give him a try? nt

[onehandle]

4. "required for all 14-year old German boys after December 1939"

DUers love to take things out of context.

A friend of mine's relative was forced to be in the Hitler Youth. And he was Jewish, which the family kept secret throughout the war. Was he a Nazi?
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Following his fourteenth birthday in 1941, Ratzinger was enrolled in the Hitler Youth, as membership was required for all 14-year old German boys after December 1939, but was an unenthusiastic member and refused to attend meetings. His father was a bitter enemy of Nazism, believing it conflicted with the Catholic faith, according to biographer John L. Allen, Jr. In 1941, one of Ratzinger's cousins, a 14-year-old boy with Down syndrome, was killed by the Nazi regime in its campaign of eugenics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI

[L0oniX]

6. What nice little nazis they are.

[Ian David]

7. K&R for Der Popenfuhrer! n/t

[madrchsod]

8. yuck...the holy roman catholic church negotiating peace?

now that is ironic..the "church" and peace.