White smoke

partygirluk · #1 04-19-2005, 12:23 PM

There is a new pope. Name to follow.

Bigdaddydvo · #2 04-19-2005, 12:37 PM

Habemus Papam!!!!

BCPVP · #3 04-19-2005, 12:41 PM

Here he comes

BCPVP · #4 04-19-2005, 12:43 PM

It's Ratzinger.

Dead · #5 04-19-2005, 12:46 PM

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It's Ratzinger.

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That sucks a lot.

Ratzinger was a member of the Hitler Youth. They couldn't have picked a worse choice.

partygirluk · #6 04-19-2005, 12:50 PM

Erm, membership was compulsory.

Dead · #7 04-19-2005, 12:53 PM

BS.

It was possible to resist, and those people set an example for others The Ratzingers were young and had made a different choice.

benfranklin · #8 04-19-2005, 01:24 PM

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It was possible to resist, and those people set an example for others The Ratzingers were young and had made a different choice.

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Incoherent Sentence of the Day award.

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In 1937 Ratzinger’s father retired and the family moved to Traunstein, a staunchly Catholic town in Bavaria close to the Führer’s mountain retreat in Berchtesgaden. He joined the Hitler Youth aged 14, shortly after membership was made compulsory in 1941.

He quickly won a dispensation on account of his training at a seminary. “Ratzinger was only briefly a member of the Hitler Youth and not an enthusiastic one,” concluded John Allen, his biographer.

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Sounds pretty dangerous to me. He willl probably have the College of Cardinals goose-stepping through St. Peter's Square in no time.

BCPVP · #9 04-19-2005, 01:25 PM

And what would have happened to him had he "resisted"?

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When Ratzinger turned 14 in 1941, he was required by law to join the Hitler Youth , but according to his biographer John Allen he was not an enthusiastic member. In 1943, at the age of 16 he was, along with the rest of his class, drafted into the Flak or anti-aircraft corps, responsible for the guarding of a BMW plant outside Munich. He was then sent for basic infantry training and was posted to Hungary, where he worked setting up anti-tank defences until he deserted in April 1944 (an offence punishable by death).

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_Ratzinger
Feel better?

benfranklin · #10 04-19-2005, 01:32 PM

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drafted into the Flak or anti-aircraft corps,

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Aha!! He was a terrorist, shooting down airplanes [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

The truth comes out. (Inquiring minds want to know!)